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Past Tenses
Past Tenses
Past Tenses
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PART 1
Mинулий неозначений час найчастіше
використовується для позначення дії котра
відбувалася в минулому і вже є завершеною.
We use the past tense to talk about:
•something that happened once in the past:
I met my wife in 1983.
We went to Spain for our holidays.
They got home very late last night.
•something that happened several times in the past:
When I was a boy, I walked a mile to school every day.
We swam a lot while we were on holiday.
They always enjoyed visiting their friends.
•something that was true for some time in the past:
I lived abroad for ten years.
He enjoyed being a student.
She played a lot of tennis when she was younger.
•we often use expressions with ago with the past simple:
I met my wife a long time ago.
Маркери часу
yesterday
the day
before yesterday
last month
( week, year)
three days ago
in
2015
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PART 2
We use the past continuous to talk about the past:
- for something which happened before and after another action:
Compare: The children did their homework when (= after) I got home.
PART 3
Використання Past Perfect
Дії, що передують іншим діям в минулому
•And the silence became deeper. They had dug the grave. –
Й тиша стала ще глибше. Вони викопали могилу.
•All these people were happy, because Kennedy had won the
elections. – Всі ці люди були щасливі, бо Кеннеді отримав
перемогу на виборах.
Hardly … when and No sooner … than
•before – до того як
•before the moment – до (певного) моменту
•before the evening – до (певного) вечора
•before the day – до (певного) дня
•before the year – до (певного) року
PART 4
USE 1 Duration Before Something in the Past
Examples:
•They had been talking for over an hour before Tony arrived.
•She had been working at that company for three years when it went out of business.
•How long had you been waiting to get on the bus?
•Mike wanted to sit down because he had been standing all day at work.
•James had been teaching at the university for more than a year before he left for Asia.
•A: How long had you been studying Turkish before you moved to Ankara?
B: I had not been studying Turkish very long.
Using the past perfect continuous before another action in the past is a good
way to show cause and effect.
Examples:
•Jason was tired because he had been jogging.
•Sam gained weight because he had been overeating.
•Betty failed the final test because she had not been attending class.
We use the past perfect continuous to show that something started in
the past and continued up until another time in the past. "For five
minutes" and "for two weeks" are both durations which can be used with
the past perfect continuous. Notice that this is related to the present
perfect continuous ; however, the duration does not continue until
now, it stops before something else in the past.
Examples:
•They had been talking for over an hour before Tony arrived.
•She had been working at that company for three years when it went
out of business.
•How long had you been waiting to get on the bus?
•Mike wanted to sit down because he had been standing all day at
work.
•James had been teaching at the university for more than a year
before he left for Asia.
•A: How long had you been studying Turkish before you moved to
Ankara?
B: I had not been studying Turkish very long.
•before
•till
•untill
•for an hour
•for 5 hours
•for a day
•for a week
•for a month
•all morning / the whole morning
•all day (long) / the whole day
•all week / the whole week
•all month / the whole month
•all year (round)
•since 5 o’clock
•since last week
•since last month
•since 1991
•since last century
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