The second lesson in English 5 talks about past tenses. The entire class is a big review of simple past, past progressive, past perfect and past perfect continuous. You won’t find detailed explanations because it is a topic that has been explained to you in previous English courses.
The class will focus on simple past tense, past progressive, past perfect and past perfect progressive. Here is a brief explanation of past perfect and past perfect progressive.
Past perfect can be used to talk about a completed Action Before Something in the Past.
The Past Perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past.
Examples:
I had never seen such a beautiful beach before I went to Kauai.
I did not have any money because I had lost my wallet.
Tony knew Istanbul so well because he had visited the city several times.
Had Susan ever studied Thai before she moved to Thailand?
She only understood the movie because she had read the book.
Past perfect progressive or continuous.
We use the Past Perfect Continuous to show that something started in the past and continued up until another time in the past. “For five minutes” and “for two weeks” are both durations which can be used with the Past Perfect Continuous. Notice that this is related to the Present Perfect Continuous; however, the duration does not continue until now, it stops before something else in the past.
Examples:
They had been talking for over an hour before Tony arrived.
She had been working at that company for three years when it went out of business.
How long had you been waiting to get on the bus?
Instead, try to answer the following exercise.
Remember that all of the tenses are about events that happened in the past.
Now, go ahead and answer the following exercise and answer the questions at the end.
http://www.puzzlefast.com/en/puzzles/20130612799777
Part of this information was taken from the following websites:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfectcontinuous.html
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