PAST TENSE

Pasttense is to tell the events or incidents at the past time.

Pasttense is used :

• When the speaker thinks of an activity or state as occurred and complete at a specific time in the past
• For a non-fact in the present or future  time.This is traditionally called the” subjunctive mood “.

Example: If I had the money now,I’d buy a car.

• To refer a single event on the past

Example: I called Mary last night.

• The past habitual action.

Example: We went to school together,and we shared many experinces.

The Simple Past Tense

SimplePast Tense is kind of tense which is used to describe an event or action thathappened already in a certain time in the past.

Adverbsused: yesterday,last night ,last week,two days ago,a few minutes ago,lastweekend ,last month ,last years,in 1984,etc

• Simple past for regular verbs is added by- ed to the root of a word.

Example: She worked at the office yesterday.

• A negation is produced by adding did not and the verb in its infinitive form.

Example: She did not work at the office yesterday.

Questionsentence are started with did as in Did  she work at the office yesterday?

Verbal

Thereare two pattern of Simple Past Tense :

1.(+ ) Subject + verb II + complement

(-  ) Subject + did not + verb I + complement

(?  ) Did + subject + verb I ?

Nominal

2.( + ) Subject + to be ( was/were ) + Object

(– ) Subject + to be ( was/were ) + Not + Object

(? ) To be ( was/ were ) + Subject + Object ?

PastContinuonus Tense

PastContinuonus Tense is a kind of tense that is used to describe an event or anaction which was happening in a certain in the past.

Aswith the present tense,the continuous aspect that the activity is in progress,or that it is uncompleted ,at  the specified time.

ThePattern :

(+  ) Subject + to be ( was/were ) + verb – ing + complement

( -  ) Subject + was not / were not + verb- ing + complement

(?   ) Was/were + subject + verb-ing + complement ?

PastPerfect Tense

PastPerfect Tense is a kind of tense that is used to describe an action or an eventthat started in a certain time in the past and completed or finished tillcertain or an event that had happened before the other event or actionhappened.

ThePattern :

(+ ) Subject + had + verb III + complement

(– ) Subject + had not + verb III + complement

(? ) Had + subject + verb III + complement ?

PastPerfect Continuous Tense

PastPerfect Continuous Tense is like the past perfect tense ,but it  expresseslonger actions in the past.

ThePattern :

(+ ) Subject + Had + been + verb –ing + complement

(-  ) Subject + Had + not + been + verb-ing + complement

( ? ) Had + subject + been + verb –ing + complement ?