ALL English Past Tenses Explained in 12 Minutes [including USED TO and WOULD!]
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2024
- Learn all about English past tenses in 12 minutes: how and when to use them, and the differences between the different past tenses. In this video, we're going to discuss the following past tenses in English: the past simple, the past continuous, the past perfect, the past perfect continuous, and the phrases 'used to' and 'would'.
We will also look at the differences between them, to make sure you're not mixing them up.
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Here's a quick look at what each of the English past tenses looks like. To learn how to use them, watch the video :)
Past simple:
I played tennis last week. ('play + ed' is a regular past simple form)
I went to the cinema last night. ('went' is an irregular past simple form, the present tense form is 'go')
To ask a question, use 'did' + present tense form:
Did you play tennis last week?
Did you go to the cinema last night?
To make it into a negative sentence, use 'did not' + present tense form:
I did not play tennis.
I did not go to the cinema.
Past continuous:
I was playing tennis between 8 and 9 this morning.
So, it's 'was' or 'were' + verb + ing
To ask a question, invert 'was'/'were' and the subject:
Was I playing tennis between 8 and 9 this morning?
To make it negative, add 'not' after 'was'/'were':
I was not playing.
Past perfect:
When I went to London, I realised I had been there before.
So, you need 'had' and the past participle form (third form). 'Been' is the past participle form of the verb 'to be'.
To ask a question, invert 'had' and the subject:
Had you been to London before we travelled there together?
To make it negative, add 'not' after 'had':
I had not been to London.
Past perfect continuous:
We had been talking when you arrived.
You need 'had' + 'been' + verb + ing
To ask a question, invert 'had' and the subject:
Had you been talking when I arrived?
To make it negative, add 'not' after 'had':
We had not been talking.
Used to:
I used to like spaghetti when I was a child.
'Used to' is followed by a verb in the present tense.
To ask a question, do it in the same way you do it in the past simple tense. So:
Did + subject + use to + verb
Did you use to like spaghetti when you were a child?
To make it into a negative sentence, say:
I didn't use to like spaghetti.
Would:
We would go to the seaside a lot when we were younger.
Use 'would' and a verb in the present tense.
To ask a question, invert 'would' and the subject:
Would you go to the seaside a lot when you were younger?
To make it into a negative sentence, say:
We wouldn't go to the seaside much when we were younger.
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Hello my dearest... Thanks for everything you do for us, thanks again, there is something about present perfect,,
For example, I am at the hospital I didn't return yet in this case, is better to say that:
I have gone to the hospital, or
I am at the hospital..
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It was a brilliant idea to introduce all the ways to speak about the past in one story. Looks really clear. Perfect!
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Although I am a beginner in English, I can understand your explanation. Thank you so much. Simple and effective methodology
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For me, the most difficult tense to learn is the"Past Perfect Continuous" Thank you for the lesson
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All of them are simple. The problem is to choose right when to use which one. It might come in handy in speech, but during exams....
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Very detailed explanation for showing the differences of different past tenses. Thank you
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As a near native englisch speaker it is difficult for me to tell you what is the most difficult past tense form for me. I just speak and I am not conscious about the tenses at all. When doing an English test online, just for fun, most of the times my results vary between 89 or 90 percent and sometimes even a 100 percent. But at the moment I do prepare a little bit for an English test with Lufthansa regarding a job as a flight attendant. In the comments of applicants I’ve read that even native speakers sometimes don’t reach the 100 percent. My compliments to you ! You’re doing a great job and you’re doing it very sympathetically.
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Hello, thanks for the lesson, for me the most difficult past tenses are: past perfect, past perfect continuous.
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Thanks for the lesson, my difficulties was using the past perfect in constructing a sentence.
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This was very well explained and helpful. It’s ok when you know automatically which tense to use, but explaining it isn’t so easy, so thank you for your excellent and clear explanations. 😊
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thank you my best teacher in all time. the diffcult in the past tenses is the word would because i learned from other english language teacher they have been using would same as will .and same thing for shall and should .
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Before, I never wanted to learn the English Tenses in a systematic way, because I thought of going into it in a more intuitive manner. Now, I'm really studying these tenses with you next to me and that is so comforting. I've now underpinned my intuitive approach with a more systematic understanding. Really great. Thanks a lot. Best regards from Belgium (Bruges!). If you ever come to Belgium, please give me a ring, I can show you around if you like. Best regards!
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We can also use Past Continuous to talk about past events that happen at the same time (or events that are interrupted).
I was cooking the dinner when my cat came in. (two past event that happen at the same time)
Past Progressive Continuous (to emphasize duration, to show interruption).
I had been cooking the dinner for 2 hours when my cat came in.
That's something invented - 'Past Progressive Continuous' ))) Maybe you meant Past Perfect Continuous (or Past Perfect Progressive)?
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Thank you very much for the explanation ! Finally I understand some things here ! Where do we position the present perfect into that ?
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Thank you, it's getting clearer to me now about every english past tenses, after watching this video. I had understood about all the english past tenses, but I still get confused to pick the appropriate tenses every time i talk to someone, and since english is not my main language, when i speak english i oftenly convert my language first to english in my mind, and the result usually not very good. (i think i should memorize them more, and practice more, watching more english videos). But, as i said before, your video is very helpfull to me. Thank's again!
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This lesson is perfect and I’ve problems with the past perfect and past had been and have been I need to see more lesson and thank u so much
Thanks for your comment Abdul! I have a video coming up where I explain ‘have been’ (the present perfect). What else would you like to see?
I would like to see more vocabulary
Clear explanation thank you, the difficult tenses is past perfect continuous .
Past perfect and past perfect continues .
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In my native language Portuguese Brazil it's only 'past simple' and 'imperfect past'. So the other ones it's a little more difficult for me to understand. But this video helped thank you.
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I mean, actually it' s clear to me that there must be another linguistic background because of your name. But, all my respect to you because of your wonderful British accent! I am Andy. My Dad was American and my Mom German. I got to know my father late, I must have been 11 or 12 years old when I met him first. So, it was just the right time for me to become a near native speaker. But as you can imagine probably, I more or less caught up this typical American mid western accent from my Dad. He lived in Kansas City at that time. Many years later I started to work as a flight attendant with Lufthansa. When I was employed with Lufthansa, I shared an apartment together with a colleague and she had been engaged with a British guy. At first I was laughing when hearing this funny British accent. It sounded strange to me. But I more and more began loving it. So I started imitating this “funny” accent - just for fun at the beginning. And later on I was so deep in there, that suddenly I started doing on board announcements with a real British accent. I remember a situation. I had just finished the boarding announcement and I went into the cabin offering beverages as a guy about my age asked me: “was it you? the one who just did the announcements?” “Yes, I answered”. “Come on he said, now when doing the service you sound like a mid western guy and before, I thought you were British because of your accent - that’s incredible he added. Today I am actually happy about the fact, that nobody recognizes where I’m originating from. At least nobody recognizes the fact that I am German. And that makes me happy with my English. Am I in England, people ask me “where are you from? From Australia? Am I in the US, the ask me, are u British? And these questions are compliments.
Once an English professor told me not to play with my nice American accent, but I did - for fun. So, now it is like it is. Sometimes when visiting my American relatives they ask me: “Did you turn being British now?” Your tutorial about how to adopt a real British accent is exactly that what I was doing many years ago. Thanks again for your brilliant British tutorials. Please don’t hesitate correcting my lines to you. You might use them for another tutorial demonstrating the wrong tenses I might have used. Best regards - Andy.
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Great lesson over past tenses in English..thanks..I started learning English when I entered yunior high school in 1968,but just a little and then was continued when I was studying in senior high school...so when I started study in university I had studied about basics of English..then I had been learning of English befire I met you in yutube...I used to make travelling abroad with bad English..next I would like make travelling abroad with good enough in English..hopefully
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Thanks Aga very clear and interesting 🙂 but could you let me know please, why at 10:48 you said « we’ve been talking about … » ? because it’s not the past of another past, or am I mistaken ? thanks
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The hardest grammatical structure is Past Perfect. Thanks for your brilliant explanation ~ I can't wait your next tips.
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Thank you professor. For me PAST PRFECT CONTINOUS
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