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8 The Past Tenses

Warm-up

Correct the errors in these sentences.

1. Did they lived in Durban?

2. He didn’t spoke Chinese.

3. Did he went to Bhubaneswar?

4. When did you studied in that school?
5. We was hungry.

6. I goed to the beach.

7. They had not clean their room.

8. Did you ate my cake?

9. They didn’t went to the beach.
10. She had went to Kolkata for a few days.

The past tenses are classified as the simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous
tenses. Let us learn about them.

Simple Past Tense

Uses

We use the simple past tense to talk about

1. finished actions and events which were completed at a specific time in the past.
For example,

y They sang at the concert yesterday.
y I went to the cinema on Sunday.
2. for finished actions and situations that happened very long ago but are connected
to the present with a specified time reference. For example,

y Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.

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