Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Relationship of
Past Events/Actions
to Each Other
Past Tenses
Past Tenses -
Examples
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3 Simple Past 1) When I arrived, they were
talking
about me.
1
__ Past Continuous 2) When I arrived, they had
been
4
talking about me for an hour.
__ Past Perfect 3) When I arrived, they talked
2 about
me.
__ Past Perfect 4) When I arrived, they had
Past Tenses
Past Tenses -
Formulas
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3 Simple Past 1) had been + vb-ing
__
2 Past 2) was/were + vb-ing
Continuous
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4 Past Perfect 3) verb + ed (*regular verbs)
__
1 Past Perfect 4) had + past participle
Continuous
Past Tenses
COMPAR
E
Simple Past (verb + ed )
COMPAR
E
Simple Past (verb + ed )
Action 2 occurring right after action 1.
When I arrived, they talked about me..
(First, I arrived. Then they started talking about me.)
COMPAR
E
Past Perfect (had + past participle )
Action 2 occurring before action 1.
When I arrived, they had talked about me..
(They started and finished talking about me before I
arrived. I didnt see them talking about me.)
Past Continuous
(was/were + present When I arrived, they were
participle ) Action 2 talking about me..
continuing at the same time
as action 1.
Past Perfect
(had + past participle ) When I arrived, they had talked
Action 2 occurring before about me..
action 1.
had already
1) I was late. The teacher ____________________ (already
gogiven
/give) a quiz when I ____________________ (get) to class.
t
were still
2) The kids ____________________ (still / sleep) when their
calle sleeping
father _______________ (call). And I didnt want to wake
them up, sod they didnt talk to him.
3) My mother ____________________
slep (sleep) when I
____________________
arrived (arrive)
t home. She was always anxious
about what could happen to me. As for my father, he
didnt seem to worry. When I arrived home from parties,
he ____________________
had already (already / go) to bed.
gone
4) I ____________________
had
hadstudied
been (study) English for almost 2 years
when I first____________________
studying
traveled (travel) abroad.
Past Tenses
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