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Past tenses (overview)

(All English verb tenses of the past)

Timeline

Timeline of the past tenses

List of the topics (past tenses)

  • Ways to express the past
  • Past simple: use
  • Past simple: forms (active voice)
    • Exercise 1: past simple
    • Exercise 2: past simple
    • Exercise 3: past simple
    • Exercise 4: past simple
  • Past simple: forms (passive voice)
  • Past simple: forms of ‘to be’
    • Exercise 1: past simple of ‘to be’ (was/were)
    • Exercise 2: past simple of ‘to be’ (was/were)
  • Past simple: forms of ‘to have’
  • Past simple: forms of ‘to do’
  • Past simple: conjugation of modal verbs
  • Past continuous: use
  • Past continuous: forms
    • Exercise 1: past continuous/progressive
    • Exercise 2: past continuous/progressive
  • Past simple vs. past continuous: comparison
    • Mixed exercise 1: past simple and past continuous
  • Past perfect simple: use
  • Past perfect simple: forms
    • Exercise 1: past perfect simple
  • Past perfect continuous: use
  • Past perfect continuous: forms
  • List of exercises: past tenses
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      • Ways to express the past
      • Past simple: use
      • Past simple: forms (active voice)
      • Past simple: forms (passive voice)
      • Past simple: forms of ‘to be’
      • Past simple: forms of ‘to have’
      • Past simple: forms of ‘to do’
      • Past simple: conjugation of modal verbs
      • Past continuous: use
      • Past continuous: forms
      • Past simple vs. past continuous: comparison
      • Past perfect simple: use
      • Past perfect simple: forms
      • Past perfect continuous: use
      • Past perfect continuous: forms
      • List of exercises: past tenses
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