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 Using English to Report

Present
Simple Past Past Perfect
Perfect Tense
Tense Tense

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Verb + “ed” or it’s irregular (e.g eat > ate) Simple Past
Tense

Compeleted
activity

Past Present Future

Example:
Einstein shocked the world by showing that time
and space are not absolute quantities, but depend
on the speed of your reference frame
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 Was/Were + Past Participle + By Agent

Example :
Active form “ Global Warming, deforestation, Passive
and pollution destroy the earth’s natural Voice
resources”

Passive form “The earth’s natural resources

were destoyed by global warming,
deforestation, and pollution

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Identifying simple past tense, active and
passive form
⬡ Gravitational potential increased while going up the stairs, and
decreased while going down the stairs. A force was required
both to go up the stairs and down the stairs. If instead you
walked on the level from one point to another, then the
gravitational potential was constant, and no force was need to
change gravitational potential.

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 (“has’’ or “have”) + (Past Participle)
Present Perfect
Tense

Activity started in the

past and continues to
the present

Past Present Future

Example :
The two waves have interfered with each other
and have increased/decreased their amplitude
in these two extreme cases
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 (“had”) + (Past Participle)
Past Perfect
Tense
First, a
completed
...then,
activity
another
activity

Past Present Future

Example :
Newton had believed that there was one
single time for the entire universe
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