Grammatical tenses

1. Tenses
Tenses
Simple Past
Simple Past
and the
and the
Past Continuous
Past Continuous

2. Simple Past
Simple Past

3. Whatisit?
Whatisit?
It expresses the
It expresses the
idea that an action
idea that an action
started
started andandfinished
finished at aat aspecific time in the
specific time in the
past.
past.

4. Examples…
Examples…
Examples:
You called Debbie.
Did you call
Debbie?
You did not call
Debbie.
A completed action in the past…

5. Simplepast
Simplepast
How do we make a
Simple past sentence?
Verb+ed OR use irregular
verbs
•You hated English Grammar!
•They flew to Chicago last
month

6. Irregular
Irregularverbs
verbs
Verbs whose past and past
participle tense forms do
not follow the standard
rules. Here are four of
them…

7. Simplepastwith
Simplepastwith
irregularverbs
irregularverbs
Examples…
She awoke in the middle of the night.
He met with his friends at 3 o’clock
two days ago.
I bought a beautiful dress yesterday.
She ate good breakfast this morning.
We drank a lot of milkshake late last
night.
They went to Spain last year.
She flew to Italy month ago.

8. Simplepastwith
Simplepastwithregularverbs
regularverbs
EXAMPLES:
She played chess yesterday.
I watched TV last night.
He visited his grandparents
month ago.
We cleaned the house 3 hours
ago.

9. PastPast
Continuous
Continuous

10. Whatisit?
Whatisit?
It is used for past actions that
It is used for past actions that
were happening at some
were happening at some
time in the past.
time in the past.
Examples:
Examples:ItIt waswas gettgettinging darker
darker
The wind
The wind waswas risrisinging
This tense always uses the
This tense always uses the
‘‘inging’’ form with the verb and
form with the verb and
always uses
always uses ‘‘bebe’’ forms:
forms: waswas,,
werewere

11. Pastcontinuous
Pastcontinuous
“I was working all
night”
This suggests:
•It was happening for
some time in the past.

12. PastContinuous
PastContinuous
Usually Past Continuous is
Usually Past Continuous is
used with Past Simple, e.g.:
used with Past Simple, e.g.:
•II was cooking
was cooking a dinner
a dinner
when a telephone
when a telephone rangrang..To connect both tenses use
To connect both tenses use
a word:
a word: when
when•He came home
He came home when
when II
was watching TV.
was watching TV.•She was having a shower
She was having a shower
when
when she heard a noise.
she heard a noise.

13. PastCont
PastContinuous
inuous
Put the verbs in brackets
Put the verbs in brackets
into the past continuous:
into the past continuous:
She (not work)
She (not work)
Answer:
Answer:SheShe waswasn’t work
n’t workinging

14. PastCont
PastContinuous
inuous
Put the verbs in brackets into
Put the verbs in brackets into
the past continuous and finish:
the past continuous and finish:
She (swim) in the river
She (swim) in the river
Answer:
Answer:

15. PastCont
PastContinuous
inuous
Put the verbs in brackets into
Put the verbs in brackets into
the past continuous and finish:
the past continuous and finish:
She (swim) in the river
She (swim) in the river
when…
when…
Answer:
Answer:SheShe waswas swimm
swimminging in the
in the
river when she saw a bear.
river when she saw a bear.

16. PastCont
PastContinuous
inuous
Put the verbs in brackets into
Put the verbs in brackets into
the past continuous and finish:
the past continuous and finish:
He (teach) his boy to ride
He (teach) his boy to ride
when…
when…
Answer:
Answer:

17. PastCont
PastContinuous
inuous
Put the verbs in brackets into
Put the verbs in brackets into
the past continuous and finish:
the past continuous and finish:
He (teach) his boy to ride
He (teach) his boy to ride
when…
when…
Answer:
Answer:HeHe waswas teach
teachinging his boy to
his boy to
ride when it started raining.
ride when it started raining.

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