Past perfect tense

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​The past perfect tense is used to show that something happened before another action in the past.

The past perfect, sometimes called pluperfect, describes events in the past. This is a specific type of tense and even when it seems hard to use, it is actually pretty easy. This tense describes events that happened in the middle of another event in the past, or which „passed in the past“. To construct the past perfect tense, we need to know all the irregular verbs and their forms.

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Past Continuous Tense

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​The past continuous tense is used to describe actions that began in the past and often continued for a short period of time after the action started.

The past continuous (sometimes past progressive) tense is a really important tense used in English. This tense is very often used in daily conversation so it is really necessary to know how to use it.

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Past Simple Tense

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The past simple tense (sometimes called preterite, simple past or past indefinite) is the basic form of the past tense. This is one of the most common past tenses and can describe a lot of events. It is really important to know how and when to use this tense for daily conversation.

But there are a lot of irregular past tense forms in English. Here are the most common irregular verbs in English, with their past tense forms. We have prepared some examples of past simple time.

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Verb form V4 (the –s form)

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There can be up to five different forms of verbs, usually referred to as V1, V2, V3, V4 and V5. Verbs are simply words that express action or a certain state of being. The –s form is used as the third-person singular. The verb is formed by adding –s (or sometimes –es) to the end… Continue reading Verb form V4 (the –s form)

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Verb form V1 = the base form

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There can be up to five different forms of verbs, usually referred to as V1, V2, V3, V4 and V5. Verbs are simply words that express action or a certain state of being. V1 (Base form, or Infinitive) is the easiest out of all. The base form is simply the root form of the verb… Continue reading Verb form V1 = the base form

READ: simple past tense, past participle and perfect

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“Read” is one of the most necessary and commonly used verbs in the English language that you simply cannot live without. Below we explore its past tense usage. The verb “read” is one of the so-called irregular verbs that we have to memorize. Fortunately, all the forms of this verb are exactly the same. READ… Continue reading READ: simple past tense, past participle and perfect