This document outlines different English verb tenses including the past simple, past continuous, present perfect, and past perfect tenses. It explains their uses, structures, time expressions, and provides examples for each tense. The past simple is used for finished past actions, the past continuous for interrupted actions or actions occurring at a specific time in the past, the present perfect for actions connecting the past and present or unfinished actions, and the past perfect for actions completed before another past action.

1. PAST
TENSES
OUTLINES

2. PAST
SIMPLE

3. USE
Finished actions
 Actions in the past.
 Repeated actions.
 Long actions.
 Facts in the past.
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4. STRUCTURE
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+) Suject+verb(ed/irregular
+Complements
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-) Suject+didn't+verb(ed/irregular)
+complements
?) Did+suject+verb(ed/irregular)

5. EXPRESSION
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The day before...
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After
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Yesterday
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X days ago

6. EXCEPTION
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Used to would.

7. EXAMPLES
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I was in the party yesterday.
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I wasn't in the party yesterday.
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Did you was in the party yesterday?

8. PAST
CONTINUOUS

9. USE
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Long action in the past it was interrupted.
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Actions in a specific time.
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Two actions in the same time.

10. STRUCTURE
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+) Suject+was/were+verb(+ing)+complements.
-) Suject+ wasn't/weren't+verb(+ing)
+complements.
?) Was/Were+suject+verb(+ing)+complements.

11. TIME EXPRESSIONS
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While/Was
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Past simple-Past continuous
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Past continuous-Past simple
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Past continuous-Past continuous.

12. EXCEPTIONS
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If I were.
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Carrying/studying/Passing....

13. EXAMPLES
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I was doing my homework yesterday.
While I was doing my homework you arrived to
my house.
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Was she dancing in the party?
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I wasn't dancing in the party yesterday.

14. PRESENT
PERFECT

15. USE
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Actions in the past and present.
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Describing an experience.
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Change in the time.
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Actions non-happened.
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16. EXTRUCTURE
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+) Suject+have/has+verb(past participe)
+complements.
-) Suject+haven't/hasn't+verb(past participe)
+complements.
?) Have/Has+Suject+Verb(past participe)
+complements.
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No, +suject+haven't/hasn't
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Yes,+suject+ have/has

17. TIME EXPRESSIONS
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Since
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Yet
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Never
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Ever
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Already

18. EXCEPTIONS
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Have you ever...'?
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I've got....

19. EXAMPLES
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Have you talked to Peter?
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Has she gone to work?
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I haven't talked to Peter.
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We've been to London.
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The've learned English.

20. PAST
PERFECT

21. USES
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Past in the past.
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Actions in a specific time in the past.
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Actions in the past carryied in the past, too.

22. STRUCTURE
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+) Suject+had+verb(past participe) +
complements.
-) Suject+hadn't+verb(past participe)
+complements.
?) Suject+had+verb(past participe)
+complements.
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No, +Suject+Hadn't
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Yes,+suject+Had

23. TIME EXPRESSIONS
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t
The previous day.
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The day before.

24. EXAMPLES
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I'd visited Louvre before, so I knew where the
Mona Lisa was..
I'd studied English before they went to England.
I hadn't worked before, so I don't know what we
must to do.
Had you visited London before?