Past Tenses
Past Tense Tense symbolizes the ever moving, non-stop wheel of time which is forever busy gathering moments of future and throwing them into the dustbin of past Simple Past Used to indicate an action completed in the past. It often occurs with adverb of time. Sometimes it is used without an adverb of time. Used for past habits. Eg. I played football when I was a child. Rule: Subject + V2 Eg She wrote a letter 1. Assertive Sentences – Subject + V2 + Object + (.) She wrote a letter. 2. Negative Sentences- Subject + didn’t + V1 + Object + (.) She didn’t.write a letter. 3. Interrogative Sentences- Did + Subject + V1 + Object + (?) Did she write a letter? 4. Interrogative Negative Sentences- Did + Subject + not + V1 + Object + (?) Did she not write a letter? Past Continuous Tense Used to denote an action going on at some time in the past. e.g. I was driving a car. Rule: was/were + ing 1. Assertiv