Smart course b2-week 8-class 15- Narrative tenses wrap up

What are narrative tenses used for?

(a)  

• To explain hypothetical situations

• To discuss past events and tell stories
• To describe present actions

• To talk about future events

Which tense is used for actions that started and finished in the past?

• Past continuous

• Past perfect

• Past simple

• Past perfect continuous

Which of the following sentences uses the past simple tense correctly?

(a)  

• I have walked to the store.

• I was walking to the store.

• I walked to the store.
• I had been walking to the store.

What is the form of the past continuous tense?

• Subject + was/were + ing form of the verb

• Subject + verb in past form

• Subject + had + past participle

• Subject + had been + ing form of the verb

Which sentence correctly uses the past continuous tense?

• I was walked to the park.

• I walk to the park.

• I was walking to the park.

• I had walked to the park.

How do past simple and past continuous tenses often work together?

• To describe future plans

• To describe an action that interrupts another

• To describe two actions happening simultaneously

• To describe hypothetical situations

Which sentence correctly uses both past simple and past continuous tenses?

(a)  

• I had cooked when the phone rang.

• I cooked when the phone was ringing.

• I am cooking when the phone rang.

• I was cooking when the phone rang.

What is the form of the past perfect tense?

(a)  

• Subject + was/were + ing form of the verb

• Subject + had + past participle
• Subject + had been + ing form of the verb

• Subject + verb in past form

Which tense is used to describe an action that started in the past and continued up until another time in the past?

• Past perfect continuous

• Past simple

• Past perfect

• Past continuous

What is the form of the past perfect continuous tense?