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How To Use Past Perfect Tenses | SIMPLE or CONTINUOUS
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In today’s English Grammar Lesson, I’ll go over the past perfect continuous usage, pronunciation \u0026 examples. PLUS we’ll compare the past perfect simple, so you know the differences and when you should use them!
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Past Continuous Tense vs. Past Simple: The Mysterious Stalker (Suspense Thriller Short – ESL Video)
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Title of English / ESL Video:
Elissa and the Mysterious Stalker
Target English Grammar:
Past Continuous Tense vs. Past Simple Tense. (Also known as Past Progressive Tense and Simple Past Tense)
Student Proficiency Level:
Preintermediate level grammar
Suggested Courses:
General English.
Instructions:
– Play the video in class after delivering a warmup activity first.
– Pause the video whenever the narrator asks students a question to give students time to answer. For example, after elicitations and concept checking questions (CCQs).
Summary of English Grammar: Past Continuous Tense vs. Past Simple
Approximate chronological order:
Storyline:
– Starts at 0:00. Ends at 2:40.
English Grammar Rules and Explanations:
Function:
– To talk about an action still in progress in the past.
Timeline:
– Someone was chasing her.
– Someone started chasing her in the past, but we don’t know when.
– That person stopped chasing her some time in the past. Again, we don’t know when.
– We are talking about the whole period from the beginning of the chase to the end.
Specific Uses:
– Background event:
– On a cold dark night, Elissa was working late at the office.
– This sentence sets the setting and the background of the story.
Simple Past:
– To talk about completed or repeated actions.
– She quickly ran into the cemetery.
– This action is finished and completed.
– When we use two simple past actions, the second action happened after the first action. For example,
– She quickly ran into the cemetery and hid there.
– So she ran into the cemetery first, then she hid inside the cemetery.
Combining the Past Progressive Tense with the Simple Past:
– Past progressive = longer action
– Past simple = shorter action
– The shorter action happened while the longer action was still in progress. But sometimes these two actions happen at the same time.
– Example: As she was leaving her office, she realised the streets were now empty.
– Elissa leaving her office is the longer action.
– Elissa realising the streets were empty is the shorter action.
– So Elissa was leaving her office and during this time, she noticed the streets were now empty. But she didn’t stop leaving the office when she noticed this.
Specific Uses:
– Interruption: Sometimes a shorter action interrupted a longer action.
– Example: While she was walking back home, she heard some footsteps behind her. She turned around to look.
– Elissa walking back home is the longer action.
– Hearing the footsteps is the shorter action.
– In this case, the footsteps interrupted her walking and made her stop to look back before she continued walking again.
Multiple Progressive Actions in the Same Sentence:
– Multiple actions happening at the same time.
– Example: I was walking home and someone was following me.
– We don’t know which action started first.
– We also don’t know which action finished first.
– We only know that during a certain period in the past these two actions were happening at the same time.
– We can use more than two past progressive actions in the same sentence, and all these actions were happening at the same time some time in the past.
Form:
Statements:
Subject + was/were + verb (ing) + …
Elissa + was + working + late.
Yes/No Questions:
Was/were + subject + verb (ing) + …?
Was + Elissa + working + late?
Open Questions:
Wh/How + was/were + subject + verb (ing) + …?
Why + was + Elissa + working + late?
Conjunctions:
– We use conjunctions to join past simple and progressive actions.
– Example conjunctions: while, when, as.
– Example sentence 1: While she was walking back home, she heard some footsteps behind her.
– Example sentence 2: When Elissa was hiding, the footsteps stopped.
– Example sentence 3: As she was running, she saw a cemetery.
Switching the Order of the Tenses:
– We can also place the simple past action at the front of the sentence before the past continuous action.
– Example: She heard some footsteps behind her while she was walking back home.
Concept Checking Questions (CCQs)
Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous (progressive) – English grammar tutorial video lesson
Past perfect past perfect continuous grammar tutorial
This tutorial is about the past perfect and the past perfect continuous, also known as the past perfect progressive. In this lesson I am going to show you how to form and when to use a past perfect, and how to from and when to use a past perfect continuous.
Now let’s get started. Take a look at these sentences:
I had worked before I ate my breakfast.
I had been working before I ate my breakfast.
The first sentence is in the past perfect tense.The second sentence is in the past perfect
continuous tense. Now let’s have a look at how to make a past perfect. We can make a past perfect for the regular verbs, by using the auxiliary verb to have but then
the past tense from which is had, and the past participle. Remember we can make a past participle by adding ed to the base form of the verb.
For example:
I had walked the dog.
For the irregular verbs we also use had and the past participle but here the past participle has a different form.
She had driven my car. (The infinitive form of the verb is to drive.)
The past perfect continuous is made with the auxiliary verb have,but then the past simple for which is had, the past participle of the verb ‘to be’ which is been,
the base form of the verb and ing.
For example
I had been walking the dog and she had been driving my car.
Now let’s have a look at the difference between the two. We use the past perfect for verbs that express either an activity or a state,which started in the past before
something else in the past so we have two things happening in the past but one
before the other. For example:
He had talked on the phone before he started cooking
I had broken my leg before I broke my arm.
A past perfect continuous is used for an activity which started in the past before something else in the past, so only with activities. For example:
I had been talking to him, before I sent that email.
Please note that we cannot use the verb ‘to break’ here.
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