UPET Intermediate Unit 4 Grammar References - Past Tenses

Tick all the past tenses

• Past Simple

• Past Continuous

• Past Perfect

• Used to

• Past Tenses in Passive

The Past Simple is the same for I, you, we, they, he, she, it; all persons.

• Yes

• No

Tick all the uses of Past Simple

• To express a finished action in the past

• To express interrupted past activity

• To express actions that follow each other in a story

• To express a past situation or habit

• To use together with 'used to'

Tick all the use of Past Simple to express: a finished action in the past?

• We met in 2000.

• Mary walked into the room and stopped. She listened carefully.

• When I was a child, we lived in a small house by the sea. Everyday, I walked for miles on the beach with my dog.

• John left two minutes ago.

• She heard a noise coming from behind the curtain and...

Tick all the use of Past Simple to express: actions that follow each other in a story

• We met in 2000.

• Mary walked into the room and stopped. She listened carefully.

• When I was a child, we lived in a small house by the sea. Everyday, I walked for miles on the beach with my dog.

• John left two minutes ago.

• She heard a noise coming from behind the curtain and...

Tick all the use of Past Simple to express: a past situation or habit

• We met in 2000.

• Mary walked into the room and stopped. She listened carefully.

• When I was a child, we lived in a small house by the sea. Everyday, I walked for miles on the beach with my dog.

• John left two minutes ago.

• She heard a noise coming from behind the curtain and...

We used to live in a small house.

• Past Simple

• Past Simple Passive

The Past Simple uses spelling of verb + ed

• Yes

• No

In Past Simple, most regular verbs add -ed to the base form of the verb.

• Yes

• No

Tick all the regular verbs that add -ed to the base form of the verb in Past Simple

• washed

• robbed

• played

• admitted

• hurried