Unit 2

Dear students, here you can find extra exercises in order to study a little bit more!
All of them have answer key in the link. 
 
Gammar Contents:
 
1) Past Perfect:
 
 
 
2) Narrative Tenses (Past perfect, Simple Past and Past Continuous)
 

Narrative tenses - a quick reminder

  •     Past simple
    •     Describes the main events of the story
    •     Describes sequences of events
    •     It is the 'standard' narrative tense. If in doubt, go for past simple.
  •     Past continuous
    •     Describes unfinished actions, especially around a certain time
    •     Describes longer actions interrupted by shorter ones
    •     Is often used for describing background actions
    •     Is sometimes used to make the actions in a story seem more immediate, especially with the word now
  •     Past perfect
    •     Describes actions which took place before the main actions in the story
  •     Past perfect continuous
    •     Describes longer continuous actions which took place before the main actions in the story
    •     Is sometimes used to explain the condition of people or things at the time of the main events in the story.

 

 
 
 
 
 
3) Past perfect vs Simple Past 
 

Form:

Simple Past Past Perfect Simple

2nd column of irregular verbs

Example:
I spoke

had + 3rd column of irregular verbs

Example:
I had spoken

regular verbs: infinitive + ed

Example:
I worked

regular verbs: form of have + infinitive + ed

Example:
I had worked
 

Use

We use Simple Past if we give past events in the order in which they occured. However, when we look back from a certain time in the past to tell what had happened before, we use Past Perfect.

Simple Past Past Perfect Simple

some time in the past

Example:
Jane got up at seven. She opened her birthday presents and then the whole family went to the zoo.

before/up to a certain time in the past

Example:
Before her sixth birthday, Jane had never been to the zoo.