2024年6月11日 · Learn how to use the past simple to talk about the past, and do the exercises to practise using it.

Learn about the different past tense forms (past simple, past continuous and past perfect) and do the exercises to practise using them.

The past continuous and the past simple help us to show how two past actions or situations are connected. Past simple. The past simple shows us that an action was in the past, not in the present. Regular past simple verbs have -ed at the end (e.g. called, played, arrived).

Questions in the present simple and past simple. For other verbs in the present simple, we use the auxiliary verb do/does in the question.

The past forms for irregular verbs are not regular -- you just have to learn them. Sometimes people study these verbs in groups based on the past simple form -- for example, 'buy', 'bring' and 'think' all have '-ought' in their past simple form: 'bought', 'brought' and 'thought'.

This page is titled 'Talking about the past' because it presents past meanings (e.g. Past events and situations; The past in the past) and forms you can use for those meanings. In other words, the page is primarily organised by past meaning – not by form.

In general, the past simple describes a completed action while the past continuous describes an interrupted action in some way - that is, one which happens around another action or time. Wear is an unusual verb in that it is usually in the continuous unless you are talking about a particular event or situation.

2024年8月16日 · Present simple and past simple questions and negatives. For all verbs except be and have, we use do/does or did to make Yes/No questions in the present simple and past simple:

2025年1月24日 · We can always use the past simple as an alternative to used to or would to talk about past states or habits. The main difference is that the past simple doesn't emphasise the repeated or continuous nature of the action or situation.

According to the grammar, Past perfect is used to talk about an action that hapens BEFORE another action in Past Simple. Therefore, the first action is the action in Past Perfect and the second action is in past simple. But in this sentence the first action is "start" and the second one is "watch", so why is "watch" in past perfect?