Past Tenses

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Ci sono 6 diversi tempi passati:

• SIMPLE PAST ( I lived )
• PAST PROGESSIVE ( I was living )
• PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE ( I have lived )
• PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE ( I have been living )
• PAST PERFECT SIMPLE ( I had lived )
• PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE ( I had been living )

SIMPLE PAST: si usa per descrivere azioni finite nel passato.
Ex. Susan WENT into the station and BOUGHT a ticket.

Si usa per descrivere abitudini del passato, ma necessita la presenza di avverbi di tempo finito come yesterday, two months ago, last night, in 1995:

Ex. What DID you DO THEN?
I MET Robert YESTERDAY.
I LIVED in France FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

Si usa per raccontare una storia:

Ex. Once upon a time there WAS a beautiful caste where a little princess
BORN. One day a wizard CAME…

Past progressive(continuous): si usa per descrivere un’azione in corso nel passato a cui ci si riferisce ( lavoravo, stavo lavorando).
Ex. There where a lot of people waiting at the airport. Some WERE
SLEEPING, others WERE WALKING up and down; I WAS WAITING
for Ann…

Spesso descrive un’azione ripetuta in passato o un’abitudine noiosa:

Ex. When Peter was younger, he WAS ALWAYS GETTING into trouble.

Spesso si usa il past progressive con il past simple per esprimere un’azione in corso nel passato, improvvisamente interrotta:

Ex. While John WAS PACKING his suitcase, the phone rang.

Ricorda: alcuni verbi non richiedono la forma –ING, come TO TASTE.