PAST TENSE

Yanti Anggraini, SP., M.Pd.

PAST SIMPLE
▪ The simple past tense, sometimes called
the preterite, is used to talk about a
completed action in a time before now.

▪ The simple past is the basic form of past

tense in English.

▪ The time of the action can be in the recent

past or the distant past and action duration
is not important.

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 PAST
CONTINUOUS
The past continuous describes actions
or events in a time before now, which
began in the past and were still going
on when another event occurred.

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PAST PERFECT
The past perfect refers to a time earlier
than before now. It is used to make it
clear that one event happened before
another in the past. It does not matter
which event is mentioned first – the
tense makes it clear which one
happened first.

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PAST PERFECT
CONTINUOUS
The past perfect continuous (also called
past perfect progressive) is a verb tense
which is used to show that an action
started in the past and continued up to
another point in the past.

Yanti Anggraini, SP., M.Pd.

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 People who discovered the
tenses were Joan L Bybee,
Revere Perkins, and William
Pagliuca (1994) in University of
Chicago Press.

Yanti Anggraini, SP., M.Pd.

THANK
YOU

Yanti Anggraini, SP., M.Pd.