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The document provides information about grammar tenses including the past simple, past continuous, used to, and present perfect simple. It explains how to form and use these tenses through examples and rules. Key differences between the tenses are outlined such as showing shorter versus longer actions in the past or actions happening simultaneously.

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Grammar

The document provides information about grammar tenses including the past simple, past continuous, used to, and present perfect simple. It explains how to form and use these tenses through examples and rules. Key differences between the tenses are outlined such as showing shorter versus longer actions in the past or actions happening simultaneously.

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UNIT 1

HOME TRUTHS
SERAFICO SAN FRANCISCO HIGH
SCHOOL
GRAMMAR
PAST SIMPLE
AND PAST
CONTINUOUS
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PAST SIMPLE
• The past simple shows us that an action was in the past, not in the present. Regular
past simple verbs have -ed at the end (e.g. called, played, arrived). Irregular verbs
have a different form, usually with a different vowel sound (e.g. wake → woke, break
→ broke, feel → felt).
My parents called me yesterday.
I woke up early this morning.
Sam played basketball when he was at university.

• We make the negative with didn't and the infinitive verb.

My parents didn't call me yesterday.


I didn't wake up early this morning.
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We make the question form with did and then the subject and infinitive
verb.

Did you wake up early this morning?


Did Sam play basketball when he was at university?
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PAST CONTINUOUS
• The past continuous shows us that the action was already in progress at a certain time
in the past.

What were you doing at 8 p.m. last night? I was studying.


(This means that I started studying before 8 p.m. and I continued after 8
p.m ).

• The past continuous can also show that an activity was in progress for some time, not
just for a moment.
We were cleaning the house all morning.
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She couldn't come to the party. She was


working.
We make the past continuous Three years ago, we were living in my
with was or were and the -ing form of hometown.
the verb. I tried to give him some advice, but he
wasn't listening.
What were you doing this time last year?
PAST CONTINUOUS AND PAST SIMPLE 8

• When we use these two tenses together, it shows us that the past simple action
happened in the middle of the past continuous action, while it was in progress.

While I was studying, I suddenly felt sleepy.

• We often use these tenses to show an action interrupting another action.

I broke my leg when I was skiing.


As I was going to work, I saw an old friend.
We were watching television when the power went off.
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Can you see a difference in the meaning of these two sentences?

When the guests arrived, Jane was cooking dinner.


When the guests arrived, Jane cooked dinner.

(In the first one, Jane started cooking dinner before the guests arrived. We know that
because it uses the past continuous. In the second sentence, the guests arrived first and then
Jane started cooking).
RULES SUMMARY
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1 2 3
We use the past We use the past With the past
continuous for a longer continuous for two continuous, we use
action the past; we use longer actions in while, but with the past
the past simple for a progress at the same simple we use when.
shorter action that time.
interrupts it.
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“USED TO”
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• We use used to + infinitive to talk about a past situation that is no longer true. It tells
us that there was a repeated action or state in the past which has now changed.

She used to be a long-distance runner when she was younger.


I didn't use to sleep very well, but then I started doing yoga and it really helps.
Did you use to come here as a child?

RULES

• We use used to for affirmative sentences, didnt use to for negative sentences and
did (you) use to for questions.
• We use used to for repeated actions and states in the past. For reapeted actions
and states in the present, we use present simple.
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PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE


&
PAST SIMPLE
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