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Narrative Forms

This document discusses different narrative tenses used in writing including: 1) simple past, 2) past continuous, 3) simple past and simple past, 4) past continuous and past continuous, 5) simple past and past continuous, and 6) past perfect simple. Each tense is used to describe events in the past and the relationship between those events, whether they occurred consecutively, simultaneously, or one interrupted the other.

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Narrative Forms

This document discusses different narrative tenses used in writing including: 1) simple past, 2) past continuous, 3) simple past and simple past, 4) past continuous and past continuous, 5) simple past and past continuous, and 6) past perfect simple. Each tense is used to describe events in the past and the relationship between those events, whether they occurred consecutively, simultaneously, or one interrupted the other.

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NARRATIVE FORMS

Leonardo Palacin Bustamante


NARRATIVE FORMS
Narrative Tenses are mostly used in writing.

1. Simple Past
2. Past Continuous
3. Simple Past & Simple Past
4. Past Continuous & Past Continuous
5. Simple Past & Past Continuous
6. Past Perfect Simple

Leonardo Palacin Bustamante


1. SIMPLE PAST:

specific time Present

A finished past action at a specific time

Example:
I went to the cinema yesterday.
A: Did you watch Aquaman (last week)?
B: No. I watched another film.
Leonardo Palacin Bustamante
1. SIMPLE PAST:

consecutive actions Present

Routinary past time actions or activities.

Example:
I cycled when I was a teenager.
A: Did you watch cartoons as a child?
B: Of course I did.
Leonardo Palacin Bustamante
2. PAST CONTINUOUS (was/were + verb-
ing)

Present

An action in progress at a specific time in the past.

 Example:
At 7 pm last night, I was going to the cinema.
A: What were you doing yesterday at 9pm?
B: I was watching Money Heist.
Leonardo Palacin Bustamante
3. SIMPLE PAST & SIMPLE PAST:

1st 2nd Present

A past action after another one (consecutive past actions)

 Example: When = After


-When I finished the class, I had lunch.
-She came home when the match ended.

Leonardo Palacin Bustamante


4. PAST CONTINUOUS & PAST
CONTINUOUS:

Present

Present

Two parallel ongoing/progressive actions in the past

Example: When = While = As


-When I was playing, my mum was cooking.
-Dorothy was reading while her dad was singing
Leonardo Palacin Bustamante
5. SIMPLE PAST & PAST CONTINUOUS:

Present

A past action in progress interrumpted by another one

Example: When + Simple Past


-She was reading a book when the phone rang. While + Past Cont.
-When the phone rang, she was reading a book.
-The phone rang while she was reading a book.
-While she was reading a book, the phone rang.

Note: In some books, in this section when/while + Past Continuous, but when + Simple Past
Leonardo Palacin Bustamante
6. PAST PERFECT SIMPLE: HAD + P.P.
1st 2nd

Present
The past of the past

By the time
When S. Past , Past Perfect
Before (2nd) (1st)

Example:
1st graduated
2nd bought a car
(Thomas)

Leonardo Palacin Bustamante


6. PAST PERFECT SIMPLE: HAD + P.P.
1st 2nd

Present
The past of the past

By the time
When S. Past , Past Perfect
Before (2nd) (1st)

Example:
1st graduated -By the time Thomas bought a car, he had graduated.
2nd bought a car (2nd) (1st)
(Thomas) -Thomas had graduated by the time he bought a car.
(1st) (2nd) LEPB
After
Past Perfect , S.Past
As soon as

-After Thomas had graduated, he bought a car.


(1st) (2nd)
-Thomas bought a car after he had graduated.
(2nd) (1st)

BECAUSE + PAST PERFECT SO + SIMPLE PAST

-Jessica didn’t go shopping because she had felt ill. -Jessica had felt ill so she didn’t go shopping.

Leonardo Palacin Bustamante

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