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Past Time Ingles
Isabel Allende:
Precious Past
Focus on Grammar 5
Moments
Part I, Unit 2
By Ruth Luman, Gabriele Steiner, and BJ Wells
Copyright 2006. Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Simple Past
Use the simple past to describe actions,
events, or states at a specific past time.
now
past future
Past Progressive
Use the past progressive to express an action that
was in progress (not finished) in the past.
1962
now
past future
Present Perfect
Use present perfect to express actions, events,
or states completed at an indefinite time in the
past.
now
past future
Simple Past vs. Present Perfect
Present perfect: for events at an indefinite time in the past
Simple past: for events at a definite time in the past
1964 now
past future
Form sentences with
Practice 1 present perfect or
simple past.
now
past future
Example: She
4. (live)
hasinlived
the U.S.
in the
forU.S.
She had
(have) herher forover
over1515years
years.
daughter in 1963.
1963
She married
3. (marry) herher second
second
She
1. (work)
has worked
for several
for husband in 1988.
husband in 1988
several
magazines
magazines.
She moved
2. (move) to to Venezuela
Venezuela
with herher
with family in 1975.
family in 1975
Past with Used To
Use used to + base form to show habitual
events that were true in the past but not today.
now
past future
Past Perfect 1
Use the past perfect to express events that
happened before a past event.
now
past future
before past
past event event
Past Perfect 2
The past perfect is often used with by or by the time.
The by clause may precede or follow the main clause.
1976 1991
Form sentences with simple
Practice 2 past and past perfect using
before.
She
(work)had worked for
for the
Example: the United
United Nations Nations
before
(have)she
her had her
sonsonNicolas.
Nicolas now
past future
She
1. (be)had been a
a contributor
to Mampato to
contributor
Magazine Isabel
2. Isabelhad published
(publish)
Mampato several
severalnovels
novels before she
magazine(direct)
beforethe
started a trilogy for young
(start) a
she directedmagazine
the adults. trilogy for
magazine. young adults
Past with Was / Were Going To
now
past did not future
happen
Form sentences with
Practice 3 was / were going to.
Photo Credits:
Isabel Allende Loria Barra