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Use of English Practice Units 3 and 4

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‘Unit 3 Grammar. @ Past time: past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple, past perfect continuous, would, used to / be/get used to Past simple Form statement: /you/he/she/iv/we/they played .. Note:egular verbs do not take’ed!in the negative: /you/he/she/itwe/they didn't play. past simple. Learn the past simple form of. question: Did /you/he/sheft/welthey play ..? itegularverbs.See page 194. Use Example Single completed actions Tom and played a game ofchessand he won. Habits in the past, Did you collect stomps when you were younger? Permanent situations inthe past | A famous football lived nour house before we bought it General truths and facts about the past | Crosswords didn't become popular unt the 1930s. Thine ete ma sory {hee bew ie hie ond Sion pasted bls anes whoren ovat Wecan also use din past simple statements for emphasis. ‘Why didi‘tyou win your match yesterday?’ Idi win. Who told you didn't? ¥_ Welost 5-0 butat least we did get into the final Past continuous Form statement: i/he/she/itwas playing You/we/they were playing negative: I/he/she/it wasn’t playing You/weithey weren’t playing question: _Wasi/he/she/t playing..? _ Were you/we/they playing Use Example ‘Actions happening at a particular moment ‘ meant At five o'clock Iwas reading my new book ‘Temporary situations in the past ‘Greg was living in London at the time. Annoying past habits (usualy with ainays) | When we were young my brother was always borrowing my toy. Actions in progress over a period of time | Daniel was playing video games all oming yesterday. Two actions in progress atthe same time | Were Ulla and her fiends playing Monopoly while we were playing Draughts? sca rt a | fi sun was shining andthe brs were singing Lia opened the window and {© When one action inthe past interrupts anather action in progress, we use the past simple and the past continuous together. Iwas playing on my computer when it suddenly crashed. © Wesdo notuse the past continuous for regular or repeated actions in the past. Y When wewere on holiday we played volleyball every day. % - TH © Wedo not usually use stative verbs in continuous tenses.See Unit 1, page 7. Past perfect simple Form ‘had + past participle Use Example Situations and states before the past We'd lived nex tothe gym for a couple of months before | decided to join. ‘Completed actions before amomentin the | f@already Bought the computer game when Isaw twas cheaper in past Completed actions where the important thing is the result at a moment in the past another shop. We ld fel ike playing Scrabble because we hadust finished along gameot Monepobt. {© ‘Theres often tie or no diference in meaning between the past perfect simple and the past << sieple Weld lived nextto the gym fr acouple of months before decided to join. 1 Welived next to the gym fora couple of months before Idecided o join (© Atte we have used the past perfect simple once, we often then use the past simple instead of

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