TENSES

TENSES

by Natasha Azani

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Multiple Choice

What is the past tense of run?

• run

• ran

• running

• runned

What is Past tense?​

and how do we used it?​

Past tense is what we used​ to talked about things or events that happened before now.

​For example:

​I played football. ( This is past activity)

​I was happy. ( This is a past state of being)

There are ​4 types of past tenses:

• ​Simple Past

• ​Past Progressive

• ​Past Perfect

• ​Past Perfect Progressive

​Simple Past Tense:

​The simple past tense is used to describe a completed activity that started in the past and ended in the past.

​How do we use Simple Past?

​For Simple Past, we often add -ed or -d for the regular verbs.

​For example:

walk - walked

​enjoy - enjoyed

​Irregular verbs on the other hand, the verbs usually changed the spelling and pronunciation; with few exceptions.

​For example:

​eat - ate

​sing - sang

​For example:

I went to work.

['Went' is the irregular past tense of 'go' ]

​An example using Regular verb

​Mellisa and Joan accompanied their mother to a spa.

​[ -ied is added to the root verb 'accompany' ]

Before we move to next one...​

lets check your understanding...​

Multiple Choice

Danish accidently ____ a rotten fruit and ____ a stomachache.

• eats/has

• eat/have

• ate/had

​Past Progressive Tense:

​The past progressive tense otherwise known as Past Continuous Tense. It is used to describe an ongoing activity in the past. Often, it is used to set the scene for another action.

​How do we used Past Progressive?

Past Progressive used past verb to be ( was/ were ) and present participle (verb + ing):

​

​Was : Singular Noun (SN)/ he/she/it/ I

​Were : Plural Noun (PN) /they/ we/ you

​

​[Subject + was/were + V-ing + Object]

For examples:​

Lets us move to our next type...​

Past Perfect Tense​

​Past Perfect Tense

​The past perfect tense is used to emphasize that an action was completed before another took place.

​How do we used Past Perfect Tense?

​-For Past Perfect, we used past Verb to Have 'had' followed by past participle.

-Past participle is usually the 3rd form of verb

​for example:

​eat - ate - eaten

​drive - drove - driven

​talk - talked - talked

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​Past Perfect Progressive Tense:

​The past perfect progressive tense is used to show that an ongoing action in the past has ended.

​How we used Past Perfect Progressive Tense?

​For this, we used:

​Had been + Present Participle

​

​[Subject + had been + V-ing + Object]

​Examples:

​I had been playing soccer since I was ten

​I had been weeding my garden for weeks, but I just surrendered to the weeds in the end.

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​Do you understand the topic? If not, any question?

​If you do, then let us proceed to the questions...

Multiple Choice

Change the sentence below to Past Progressive:

Sally talks to Mrs. Welsh.

• Sally was talking to Mrs. Welsh.

• Sally Talked to Mrs. Welsh

• Sally had been talking to Mrs. Welsh

• Sally had talked to Mrs. Welsh

Multiple Choice

Which is the correct past perfect sentence?

• Allisa driven the SUV back by herself.

• Allisa was driven the SUV back by herself.

• Allisa had driven the SUV back by herself.

• Allisa has driven the SUV back by herself.

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Multiple Choice

I ____ coming home from kindergarten. Well, they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I ____ working in a factory for ten years.

• is/ has been

• was/ had been

• are/ have been

• were/ had been

Multiple Choice

Select the verb in the past tense:

• will run

• ran

• am running

Multiple Choice

Select the verb in the past tense:

• wait

• will wait

• waited

Multiple Choice

Select the past perfect progressive tense:

• had gone

• went

• had been going

Multiple Choice

Select the past perfect tense:

• caught

• had caught

• catch

• had been catching

Multiple Choice

Select the example of the past perfect tense.

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

• phoned

• tell

• had stopped

• called

Multiple Choice

Select the verb in the past perfect progressive tense.

I could tell by your hair that you had been sleeping for hours.

• could tell

• had been sleeping

Multiple Choice

Select the verb in the simple past tense.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

• drawing

• fine

• said

• nothing

​Any questions?