Monday, 27 February 2012

Simple Past Tense VS Past Continuous Tense

Thursday,16/2/2012


Today,we having another two grammar presentations like yesterday. Iffah's group will explain to us about Simple Past Tense and Jihan's group on Past Continuous Tense.


Simple Past Tense: 
Used to describe situations, activities or actions which happened and ended in the past. Most verbs end with either ‘-d’, ‘-ed’ or ‘-ied’ (saved, washed, tried) but irregular verbs either do not change forms (put, spread) or have different forms altogether (spoke, swept). We can used it:-
- When it happened using a time adverb
   e.g Last year I moved to Rembau.
Described events that happened over a period of the time in the past but not now.
    e.g I lived in America for six years.
When talk about habitual or repeated actions that took place in the past.
    e.g I always went to the shopping mall when I was teenager.



click it-->http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepast.html




Past Continuous Tense:
Used to describe the situations,activities or actions that happened over a period of time in the past. Example,

  • was watching TV yesterday.
  • She was singing under the table
  • The cow was eating the grass at the morning.
I suggested you to try this website:http://www.englishtenses.com/tenses/past_continuous



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