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It expresses a finished time.
Past simple
It expresses an unfinished time.
Present Perfect
It expresses experience or result.
Present Perfect
It refers to an indefinite time.
Present Perfect
It refers to a definite time.
Past simple
The function of the ___________ is to indicate an action, event, or state that began and concluded/finished in the past.
Past simple
It describes an action, event, or state of being that both started and finished in the past.
Past simple
In this tense, we can use phrases that suggest frequency, for things which happened multiple times in the past: “often”, “sometimes”, “never”, “every”.
Past simple
In this tense, we use phrases that refer to an indefinite period of time in the past, often marked by the word “ago”. For example, “a long time ago”, “a month ago”, “several years ago”.
Past simple
You can use ___________with time expressions that refer to a point of time in the past, for example, “earlier today”, “yesterday”, “last week”, “last month” or “last Tuesday”.
Past simple
We often use this tense which is about a change or trend that started in the past and is complete in the present with verbs like become, change, increase, decrease, rise, fall, go up, go down, etc...
Present Perfect
We often use the ________________ to talk about 'a change or trend' that 'started in the past and is complete in the present.'
Present Perfect
It is often used with time expressions such as since, for, never etc...
Present Perfect
We often use the _______________ to talk about a situation that 'began in the past' and 'continues up to the present or future'.
Present Perfect
When there is no possibility that an event that happened in the past will happen again in the future, we use the : in
Past simple
We use the ________________ to talk about a 'repeated past event' that may happen again in the future.
Present Perfect
If we say 'when' something happened in the past, this is:
Past simple
We often use the _________________ to give 'new information', for example when we want to report an event that happened a short time ago
Present Perfect
The __________________ is used to talk about past actions or situations that have a connection with the present.
Present Perfect
If an action started in the past but is continuing into the future
Present Perfect
It is only used when the action or event in the past was completed.
Past simple
We can use it to talk about repeated actions in the past
Past simple
We can use it for a single period with a time expression.
Past simple
We use the ________________ to talk about a completed event in the past.
Past simple.