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Simple Past

This document discusses the structure and use of the past tense in English. It explains that the past tense uses verbs ending in "ed" or the past form of the verb to describe actions or situations that happened in the past. It provides examples of affirmative and negative statements in the past tense. It also describes the past continuous tense, which uses "was/were" plus the verb plus "-ing" to indicate an action that was ongoing at a specific point in the past. It gives examples of sentences in the past continuous tense and lists common time expressions used with both the simple past and past continuous tenses.

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Simple Past

This document discusses the structure and use of the past tense in English. It explains that the past tense uses verbs ending in "ed" or the past form of the verb to describe actions or situations that happened in the past. It provides examples of affirmative and negative statements in the past tense. It also describes the past continuous tense, which uses "was/were" plus the verb plus "-ing" to indicate an action that was ongoing at a specific point in the past. It gives examples of sentences in the past continuous tense and lists common time expressions used with both the simple past and past continuous tenses.

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ALL ABOUT PAST TENSE

STRUCTURE :

SUBJ + VERB (ed/ V2) + OBJ


APPLICATION : * An action or situation that happened in the past time * Narration of a story * A description of series of past actions or events.

Affirmative statements

Negative statements

I checked my e-mail. We got up late. They read the newspaper. He drove .

I didn't like mornings. We didn't talk a lot. They didn't get up early. He didn't have breakfast.

She watched TV.

She didn't

drive.

Time expression for simple Present yesterday , in the past, a time ago last week, last month, last year

In + (the year in the past)

PAST CONTINOUS
STRUCTURE :

SUBJ + BE(was/were) + VERB-ing + OBJ


APPLICATION : * Indicates continuing action, something that was happening at the point of time in the past. * An action that was going on over a period of time when another action took place.

PAST CONTINOUS
1. It was raining at this time yesterday. 2. She was watching her brother play when the thieves entered the house. 3. He was typing in his office when the fire broke out.

TIME EXPRESSIONS
Carl was studying hard today. these right this month. semester. now. days.

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