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Narrative Tenses: Gloria Esperanza García Medina 602017 English
Narrative Tenses: Gloria Esperanza García Medina 602017 English
Narrative Tenses: Gloria Esperanza García Medina 602017 English
tenses
Examples:
Past simple - 'We left on a rainy day’
Past continuous - 'It was pouring down even at midday’
Past perfect - 'It had rained off and on for ten days’
Past perfect continuous - 'We had been waiting to escape for what seemed ages'
Uses Narrative Tenses
Narrative tenses are used to talk about past events and to tell stories
The most common of these is the past simple.
Narrative tenses are four tenses that we often use for talking about past
events.
It is useful to look at these tenses together in the context of the
function narrating - relating past events.
The other three tenses, the past continuous, the past perfect simple and
the past perfect continuous, can help us to say what we want more efficiently.
We use narrative tenses when telling a story, or talking about situations and
activities which happened at a past time.
When telling past events, DO NOT mix past and present tenses
Time clauses
WHEN+SIMPLE PAST, SIMPLE PAST