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    PROJECT-ENGLISH

    Vlera Rexhaj XII-8


    PAST SIMPLE
    The simple past tense, sometimes called the preterite, is used to talk about a completed action in a
    time before now. The simple past is the basic form of past tense in English. The time of the action can
    be in the recent past or the distant past and action duration is not important.
    ◦ The simple past tense of regular verbs is formed by adding “-ed” to the infinitive form of the verb
    ( “cook” becomes “cooked”). Most verbs in the simple past take the same form regardless of the
    subject ( “He worked/we worked”).
    ◦ Examples
    • John Cabot sailed to America in 1498.
    • My father died last year.
    • He lived in Fiji in 1976.
    • We crossed the Channel yesterday.
    ◦ Fortunately, there is a formula for making simple past verbs negative, and it’s the same for both regular
    and irregular verbs (except for the verb to be). The formula is did not + [root form of verb]. You can
    also use the contraction didn’t instead of did not.
    Examples:
    ◦ Julio did not respond to my message.
    ◦ The audience members didn’t enjoy the performance.
    ◦ To ask a yes–no question using the simple past, add “did” before the subject and the infinitive form of
    the verb.
    Examples:
    ◦ Did you go to the theater last night?
    ◦ Did Andy forget to file the report?
    PAST CONTINOUNS
    ◦ Past continuous tense refers to those actions/events that were happening for a particular time in the past. For
    example, “Leo was writing a letter to his friend.” Here, ‘was writing’ refers to an action that Leo was doing
    in the past.
    ◦ The past continuous tense formula involves the past tense of to be (was or were) and the present participle of
    the verb, the –ing form.
    [was/were] + [present participle]
    ◦ While I was studying, my friends were playing.
    Examples
    • It was snowing yesterday.
    • They were eating at the restaurant.
    • I was studying last night.
    • We weren’t playing when it happened.
    • Were you watching T.V last night?
    PAST PERFECT
    ◦ The past perfect, also called the pluperfect, is a verb tense used to talk about something that happened
    before something else that is also in the past.
    ◦ The formula for the past perfect tense is had + [past participle]. It doesn’t matter if the subject is
    singular or plural; the formula doesn’t change.
    Examples
    • I had finished the work.
    • They had been painting the bedroom.
    • Lea was tired because he had not eaten all day.
    • Had you met Peter before last night?
    • Who had you invited to the party before it was canceled?
    This tense is used to make it clear that one event happened before another in the past
    PAST SIMPLE PASSIVE
    ◦ The past simple passive is used when the person or thing that did the action is unknown, unimportant or
    not the focus of our interest. We use by with the passive if we want to identify who or what did the action
    ◦ The past simle passive is formed by using was/were + the past participle.

    Affirmative Form Object + was / were + verb3 (past participle)


    Question Form Was / Were + Object + verb3 (past participle)

    Examples:
    • Active : Lisa didn't eat any apples.
    • Passive: No apples were eaten by Lisa.
    • Active : I wrote an amazing book.
    • Passive : An amazing book was written (by me).
    • Active : She bought two apples.
    • Passive : Two apples were bought by her.

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