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Past tenses
Past tenses
Past Simple: Describes completed actions or events that happened at a specific time in the past.
Structure: Subject + past tense verb (if the verb is regular, we create the past tense by adding -ed at the end)
Examples: I visited Paris last year. She worked late yesterday.
Past Continuous: Describes ongoing actions in the past, often interrupted by another action.
Structure: Subject + was/were + verb+ing
Examples: I was reading when the phone rang. They were playing outside all afternoon.
Past simple and continuous.pdfPast Perfect: Describes an action completed before another action or time in the past.
Structure: Subject + had + past participle
Examples: I had finished dinner before she arrived. They had left by the time we got there.
Past Perfect Continuous: Describes ongoing actions that were happening before another past action.
Structure: Subject + had + been + verb+ing
Examples: I had been studying for hours when the lights went out. She had been waiting for a long time before the bus came.
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