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What is the past perfect used to talk about?
What is the past perfect used to talk about?
- Events that happened in the present
- Events that happened in the future
- Events that happened before a certain time in the past (correct)
- Events that happened in the past
What are the four past tense forms in English?
What are the four past tense forms in English?
- Past simple, past continuous, present perfect, and past perfect continuous
- Past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and future perfect continuous
- Past simple, present continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous (correct)
- Past simple, past continuous, present perfect, and future perfect continuous
How is the past tense used to talk about the past?
How is the past tense used to talk about the past?
- To refer to hypotheses, wishes, and conditions
- To refer to events that happened in the present
- To refer to events that happened in the future
- To refer to events that happened in the past (correct)
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- The English past tense is used to talk about the past.
- There are four past tense forms in English: past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous.
- We use these forms to talk about the past: He worked, He had worked, He was working, and He had been working.
- The present and future can also be referred to in hypotheses, wishes, and conditions in the past.
- The past perfect is used to talk about events that happened before a certain time in the past.
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