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By:
WAN NUR AFIFAH WAN JUSOH901110-11-5174
SEM 1 / 2010
PISMP KS
Simple Past Tense
Past Perfect Tense
Past Continuous Tense
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Past Continuous Tense
Express an activity that was in
progress, was happening at pointof time in the past or at the time
of another action
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Construction: was/were + present participlePassive: was/were + being + present participle
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Past continuous is typically used for an activity
that was ongoing at a certain point in the past
What were you doing when the alarm bell rang?.
I was serving dinner when Mum phoned.
This time last week I was basking in the sun on aCretan Beach.
Where was I on 10 November? Oh yes, I was
paying a visit to Taiwan.
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An activity that was interrupted by a certain happening
in the simple past is in the past continuous
I was doing a tricky job on my computer when a
power cut destroyed all my data.
We were just approaching the summit whenthere was a blinding flash of lighting.
I was wondering how to deal with the problem
when an idea suck me.
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The past continuous is used to indicate the situation that
was ongoing when a certain single action took place
I was only joking when I said that.
He noticed that she was smiling to herself.
I realized he was lying.I glanced at Susan, who was trying not to laugh.
The telephone rang just as the meal
was being served.
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In some cases only the ongoing situation is mentioned
Hey! I was only teasing!You weren’t listening, were you?
A dog was barking somewhere along the street.
Verb that represent gradual change in a past context areoften in the past continuous
The situation was getting ridiculous.
The children were growing fast.
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Repeated activity in the past can be expressed by using
forever or always with the past continuous; this is often
an expression of exasperation:
Harry was forever breaking the law and being
arrested on some charge or other.
Mr. Right was always correcting people’s
grammar, usually misguidedly.
I was forever lending him money - which I never
got back.
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People often use the past continuous instead of the
simple past to avoid sounding direct and definite.
Tom and I were talking (rather than talked) about
you last night.
I was discussing (rather than discussed) this
problem earlier today with mum.
John was mentioning (rather than mentioned)
your name to me this morning.
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LANGUAGE HELP
People often make tentative offers or
requests using“I was wondering…”
Example: I was wondering if you were free to have
dinner with me this evening?.
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EXERCISE 1;
In the paragraph given, find the
simple past and past continuous
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EXERCISE
My alarm on my clock went off shrilly at
seven o’clock yesterday morning and I woke
with a start. I bought that alarm clock at Dubai
airport twelve years ago – it has accompanied
me on many journeys and has always been
reliable.
Anyway, I leapt out of bed, had a shower,
made myself a cup of coffee, ate a bowl of
cereal, took the lift to the ground floor, rushed
along to the underground station, and stopped
to buy a news paper. The newsvendor, who was
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EXERCISE
a woman, greeted me cheerfully as I handed
her the money. Then I took the elevator down
to platform down to platform 5 and caught a
train for Fulham. Twenty minutes later I arrived
t my place of work, Ambrosia Publishing.
I worked for a marketing firm for four
years; I’ve worked for nearly a year now with
Ambrosia. Previously I lived on the outskirts of
town, and had a long way to travel to work, but
I’ve moved to more convenient flat in the
centre of town.
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EXERCISE
By eight-thirty I was sitting at my computer. I
was just checking a piece of text when my boss
walked over to my desk. Then he realized that I
was trying to work something out. ‘sorry,’ he
said. ‘you were concentrating’.
My boss in my last job was forever doing
things like that – he was always interrupting my
work and spoiling my concentration on some
trivial pretext. Things were evidently turning in
the same direction in my new job.
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EXERCISE
‘I was wondering,’ he said, ‘if I could ask you a
favour.’ He then said he had some work that had
to be done urgently, and asked me if I could stay
Late and help him, if I wasn’t going anywhere or
doing anything in particular. As it happened I
was going to a film with my boyfriend, but that
wasn’t till eight, so I agreed to work till seven.
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Here is how the past perfect is formed :
Subject had Past participle
We had decided …
Affirmative : She had given.
Negative: We hadn't asked.
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Here is how the past perfect is formed :
had Subject Past participle
Interrogative: Had they arrived?
Interrogative negative: Hadn't you finished?
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What happened first? What happened second? First : I ate breakfast. Second : I went to school. Answer : I had eaten a big breakfast before I went
to school.
I ate a big breakfast. I went to school. Now
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Usage
1. To show an action that took
place at a
in the past.
Examples
• By the time we reached the
station, the bus had gone.
•By 1966 Oprah had decidedon a career.
• They had shifted out before
their house were sold.
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Usage
2. To express
or about a
This is expressedwith a
that contain ‘if’.
Examples
• If I had known the truth, I
would have apologized.
•If we had trained hard, wewould have won the game.
• If we had gone to the
dinner, we would have met
our old friends.
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Usage
3. To show that
had taken place
beforetook place.
Examples
• John had gone out when I
arrived in the office.
•I had saved my documentbefore the computer
crashed.
• The maid had left before
her employer returned.
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Usage
4. 'Just' is used with the past
perfect to
that was only a short timenow
Examples
• The train had just left
when I arrived at the
station.• She had just left the room
when the police arrived
• I had just put the washing
out when it started to rain.
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Usage
1. In some cases
with the
after the time
conjunctions
and
.
Examples
I had completed (orI completed ) my
project I was able to take a
short rest.we had unpacked (orwe unpacked ) we
explored the town.we had made
(or we made)contact with thekidnappers, we alerted thepolice.
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Rules to Remember!
1. The words already and just go between and thepast participle.
Example: When Professor Lee retired, heat Beijing University for 32 years.
2. The negative of the is formed by puttingnot between and the past participle. The wordstill is often used with the negative form of the
Example: By the end of the book, I still what the author’s opinion was.
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