past perfect continous and the other two past tenses
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welcome!
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Lesson goal
At the end of this class you can:
apply the past simple, the past perfect, and the past perfect continuous correctly to sentences to narrate the past.
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Past simple & past perfect
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Fill in the blanks
Yesterday
All my troubles .... so far away (to seem)
Now it looks as though there here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
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Past Perfect & Past simple
Mummy and Rumpi ...... (to gather) from the priest to whom they ........ (to speak) that the vault was watched over by a security guard at night. The guard ...... (to fall) asleep and the thief ........(to enter) the building via a skylight and shinnied down a rope. The priest .... (to tell) them that the thug ...... (to open) the vault with the use of sophisticated equipment.
Tarquin Hall - The Case of the Love Commandos
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Past simple: een actie in het verleden met geen link naar het heden. Stam+ ed/2e rijtje onregelmatige ww.
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Past perfect: een actie die in het verleden plaatsvond vóór een andere actie in het verleden. Had + voltooid deelwoord (stam +ed/3e rijtje onregelmatige ww)
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Past simple & past perfect & past perfect continuous
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Past perfect continuous
to talk about actions or situations that had continued up to the past moment we are thinking or talking about or very shortly before
For emphasis on how long something has been going
temporary action/situation
We had been walking since sunrise so we were very hungry.
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Past perfect continuous and past perfect
The past perfect continuous is used for temporary actions and situations, longer-lasting or permanent situations get the past perfect form.
The past perfect continuous is used to emphasise the continuation of an activity, the past perfect often indicate that there is a sense of completion.
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Compare
I had been standing still for over two hours so my legs were quite stiff when I was finally allowed to go home.
The tree that blew down during last week's storm had stood there for over 300 years.