Past Tense
- Past tense is to tell the events or incidents at the past time
- Past tense is used :
- When the speaker thinks of an activity or state as occurred and complete at a specific time in the past
Example : If I had the money now,I’d buy a car
3. To refer a single event on the past.
Example : I called Mary last night.
4. The past habitual action.
Example : We went to school
together,and we shared many experinces.
- The Simple Past Tense
Simple
Past Tense is kind of tense which is used to describe an event or action that
happened already in a certain time in the past.
Adverbs
used: yesterday,last night ,last week,two days ago,a few minutes ago,last
weekend ,last month ,last years,in 1984,etc.
# Simple past for
regular verbs is added by- ed to the root of a word.
Example
: She worked at the office yesterday.
# A negation is
produced by adding did not and the verb in its infinitive form.
Example
: She did not work at the office yesterday.
Question
sentence are started with did as in Did she work at the office yesterday
?
- There are two pattern of Simple Past Tense :
Verbal
1.(
+ ) Subject + verb II + complement
(
- ) Subject + did not + verb I + complement
(
? ) Did + subject + verb I ?
Nominal
2.
( + ) Subject + to be ( was/were ) + Object
(
– ) Subject + to be ( was/were ) + Not + Object
(
? ) To be ( was/ were ) + Subject + Object ?
- Past Continuonus Tense
Past
Continuonus Tense is a kind of tense that is used to describe an event or an
action which was happening in a certain in the past.
As
with the present tense,the continuous aspect that the activity is in progress
,or that it is uncompleted ,at the specified time.
The
Pattern :
(
+ ) Subject + to be ( was/were ) + verb – ing + complement
(
- ) Subject + was not / were not + verb- ing + complement
(
? ) Was/were + subject + verb-ing + complement ?
- Past Perfect Tense
Past
Perfect Tense is a kind of tense that is used to describe an action or an event
that started in a certain time in the past and completed or finished till
certain or an event that had happened before the other event or action
happened.
The
Pattern :
(
+ ) Subject + had + verb III + complement
(
– ) Subject + had not + verb III + complement
(
? ) Had + subject + verb III + complement ?
- Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Past
Perfect Continuous Tense is like the past perfect tense ,but it expresses
longer actions in the past.
The
Pattern :
(
+ ) Subject + Had + been + verb –ing + complement
(
- ) Subject + Had + not + been + verb-ing + complement
(
? ) Had + subject + been + verb –ing + complement ?