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14. Past Tense
Simple, Continuous, Perfect, Perfect Continuous
The simple past, past continuous and past perfect tenses use different forms of verbs in
positive, negative and interrogative sentences.
Simple past Past continuous Past perfect
Positive Simple past tense was/were + ing form had + past participle form
of the verb with of the verb. of the verb.
subject. Ex. : He was eating a Ex . : He had eaten a candy.
Ex. : He ate a candy. candy.
Negative Subject + did not was/were + not had + not +
+ root form of + ing form past participle form
verb. of the verb. of the verb.
Ex. : He did not eat Ex. : He was not eating Ex. : He had not eaten a
a candy. a candy. candy.
Interro- did + subject + was/were +subject Had+ subject
gative root form of the +ing form of the + past participle form of the
verb + ? verb + ? verb + ?
Ex. : Did he eat a Ex. : Was he eating Ex. : Had he eaten a candy?
candy? a candy?
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