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What is the
past?
The past is a part of our life. It's something (Action, doing,
saying...etc) are completely DONE whether several minutes ago, or
hundred years ago.
When do we use
it?
We always use the past when we want to
tell people what happened. For example, When you get home back from
school, and you want to tell your parents what happened in school, you
will use the past tens. Because, what happened in the school is
something done and sometimes has no relation at the same moment that you
are telling your them what happened.
Why do we use
past?
We use it to make differences between
our present, future and our past. To make differences between YESTERDAY
and TODAY.
Is it better to
use the past or the present?
It is easier to use the present in our
speeches, conversations and chats, but it's better to use the past for
the past.
NOTE,
Jokes are always said
in the PRESENT.
why jokes are always
said in the present?
Jokes usually are not TRUE, and all
those untruthful stories are said in the present.
Why don't we say
Jokes using the future tense?
We don not use the future tense when
we are telling a joke, because that won't make a sense. |
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The past tense has
several kinds; I'll write them with examples here;
1. Past Simple, which
the verb takes -ed at the end.
Ex. I visited
Josephine yesterday.
2. Past continues,
which the verb takes -ing at the end.
Ex. I was
sleeping, when
the phone rang.
Note that, the helping verb
"was" came before the verb, just to help it to take "ing" at the end. We
get from this that there is always "was, were" before the the verb to
help it to take "ing" unless the sentence is passive.
3. Past Perfect,
which the verb get "had" before it.
Ex. I had
eaten a
burger.
Note, here is a complete
different thing, when we used "had" in the example, we didn't use the
past tense of the verb, we used the past participle of the verb, which
is the third form. (eat,
ate and
eaten). |