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Time expressions are words that help you understand which verb tense to use. For example, when a sentence begins with “four days ago,” it tells us that the time is in the past, and the action is already completed.
Past Time Clauses • Past time clauses are dependent clauses. They begin with words such as before, when, while, and after. • The verbs in a past time clause and main clause can be in the simple past or in the past continuous. • A past time clause can come before or after the main clause with no change in meaning.
In this lesson you are going to learn how to use time markers to talk about the past. The time markers are since, for, just, already, and yet. I‘ve been trying to learn this grammar for 2 years.
• a single finished action in the past: I went to the dentist yesterday. I passed my exam last week. • a repeated action in the past: I called your mobile five times yesterday. We often use time expressions (e.g. yesterday, in 2002, last year) to say when something happened: Daniel Craig made his first Bond film I started work It rained all day
Simple Past, Time Clauses, Used To, and Would 2.1 Time Clauses (continued) Use until to refer to things that continued up to a certain time. Until people had refrigerators, it was difficult to keep food for a long time. (Up to the time when people got refrigerators, it was difficult to keep food for a long time.) Grammar Application
Download the PDF file by clicking on the gold button below! Grammar Discussion Past Time Words. Student 'A' version and Student 'B' version, each with 10 different discussion questions.
The tense chart provides a comprehensive overview of the different tenses, helping learners grasp the nuances of time and action within a sentence. By examining the structures and examples of each tense, learners can appreciate the precise ways in which verbs express when an action occurs.
