🔼REVIEW OF PAST TENSE🔽

FORM	FUNCTION
.- SIMPLE PAST -ed, irregular forms (Was, had, etc)	Used to describe a completed event, action, or state in the past. It is usually the main tense used to talk about the past.
.- SIMPLE PAST WITH DID FOR EMPHASIS Did + base form	Used  to describe a complete event, action, or state in the past and is used for emphasis often the contrast.
.- PAST PROGRESSIVE Was/Were + -ingForm	Used to describe actions or states in progress at a particular time in the past. It is often used to describe background action (e.g. the weather).
.- PAST PERFECT Had + past participle	Used to describe a completed event, action, or state that took place before another past event, action, or state. It is used to talk about things that happened before the man action.

Exercises:

Choose the correct verbs so that each tense appears once.
Simple past, past progressive, past perfect simple, past perfect progressive.

1.     We  went were going had gone had been going  to the cinema last week.

2.     A bird pooed on the window that I   cleaned was cleaning had cleaned had been cleaning  only a minute before.

3.     Yesterday at nine he  sat was sitting had sat had been sitting  in front of his computer.

4.     When their mum got home, the boys  watched were watching had watched had been watching  TV for two hours.

🔼WOULD, USED TO, BE + ALWAYS + ING🔽

WOULD, USED TO, BE + ALWAYS + -ING
FORM	FUNCTION	EXAMPLES
.-WOULD (ALWAYS/NEVER) + BASE FORM	Used to talk about habits or customs in the past.	Sara would never remember to buy milk on her way home.
(ALWAYS/NEVER) USED TO + BASE FORM	Used to talk about habits or customs in the past, or to express something that was true in the past, but is no longer true.	The wind always to blow really hard in the Montreal.
BE+  ALWAYS + -ING FORM (PRESENT OR PAST PROGRESSIVE)	Used to talk about habits or customs in the present and past.	.- They are always laughing and joking. .- He was always singing.

Exercises:

For each of the following sentences, choose either "used to" or "would". If both are possible, use "would".

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1. Do you remember how your Uncle David  sit in that chair and smoke those disgusting cigars.

2. Your mother  have a Yorkshire Terrier when she was a young girl, didn't she?

3. For years, they  go on holiday to the Rockies, but then it became very fashionable and, hence, expensive.

4. Years ago, I  write a diary every day but then I got bored with doing it and I stopped. Maybe it was my life that was boring!

5. At the start of their marriage, they  be very happy - but then it all went wrong!

Final del formulario