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 |
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2nd column of irregular verbs
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had + 3rd column of irregular verbs
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regular verbs: infinitive + ed
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regular verbs: form of have + infinitive + ed
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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 |
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some time in the past
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before/up to a certain time in the past
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