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Past Present tenses
Ariane Natalie Renée
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Inhalt

• Past present tenses
• Forms
• Rules
• ? exercices

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Past tenses
Forms
Present simple Present continuous Past simple Past continuous Present perfect simple Present perfect continuous Past perfect simple Past perfect continuous
Main verb in present be in present Main verb in past be in past have in present have in present have in past have in past
Main verb ing-form Main verb ing-form P.p be in the p.p P.p be in the p.p
Main verb ing-form Main verb ing form
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Present Simple
Rules Used for permanent states habits and
routines permanent truths and facts Form I
smile
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Present continuous
Rules used for... actions happening at the
moment of speaking actions happening around the
moment of speaking Descriptions Form Im
smiling
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Past simple
Rules Is used...   to talk about completed
actions in the past to talk about habits in the
past to talk about events that happened one after
the other Form I smiled  
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Past continuous
Rules Is used... to talk about an activity in
progress at a particular time in the past to
describe a situation or activity when a past
action is interrupted by a shorter action when a
past action takes place during another, longer
past action or state Form I was smiling
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perfect simple
Rules Used in.. times when you are talking
about an event in the past, but you don't know
when it happened,you don't care when it happened,
when it happened is a secret. Form I have
smiled
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Present perfect continuous
Rules Is used.. to show that something started
in the past and has continued up until now. to
describe the duration of an process/action Form
I have been smiling
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Past perfect simple
Rules Is used to/ for express an action that
happened before a definite time in the
past dramatic effect, looking from one point in
the past to another point even further in the
past Form I had smiled
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Past perfect continuous
Is used.. for longer activities that had been
going on up to a definite time in the past for
repeated or continuous activities, while the
simple is used for completed or single
actions Form I had been smiling