Past tenses

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• Leerjaar 4

Past tenses

• Learn to recognise the past tenses.
• Learn to use the past tenses to speak and write about events that happened in the past.

Past Tenses

• Past simple
• Past continuous 
• Past perfect

Past simple

 I worked.

VERB + ED

 - action in the past now finished

- sequence of past actions

- action interrupting other past action

Past continuous

I was working.

TO BE (past) + ING-FORM

- two past actions happening at the same time

- action in progress at a specific time in the past

- past action that was interrupted

Past perfect

I had worked.

TO HAVE (past) + PAST PARTICIPLE

- mostly in storytelling (and nursery rhymes)

- actions that took place before a certain time in the past

Past Tenses

Past simple: Regular/irregular verbs in the past simple ---> Yesterday I cried a lot.

Past continuous: was/were) +  -ing form of the verb ---> I was cooking dinner.

Past perfect: had + past participle ---> After he had played football, he went home. 

How do you make the
past perfect?

How do you make the
past continuous?