

The tables you’ve seen here are simple breakdowns of many English verb forms, but for a more specific overview with visuals, check out, which is a very nice site. Have you ever been drawn by someone The building hasnt been drawn yet. Past Simple Passive That picture was drawn by Maggie. Did she draw that picture They didnt draw those pictures over there. For example, “You will have had a five-hour wait to get the pizza.” Past Simple Use the past simple to speak about something that happened at a specific time in the past.

This tense indicates that an event will be happening (starting in the past or present) up until a point in the future. For example, “You will have gone to the salon before you go to the party.” This tense describes an action in the future that will be completed before another future action happens. This tense indicates events that will happen but haven’t yet. For example, “The car had been running for ten minutes until the oil line was cut.” However, this tense is used when a specific amount of time is referenced, and it uses a present participle instead of a past participle. This tense is similar to the second form of the past perfect: it describes a past event that continued to a more recent past. For example, “The car had run until the oil line was cut.”

Second, the past perfect can describe a past event that began before and continued to a more recent past event. For example, “I had eaten dinner before I went to the movies.” For example, “He has been painting for six hours.”įirst, the past perfect can describe a past even that both began and ended before a second event in the past occurred. This tense describes an event that began in the past and continues to the present moment. This is a continuation of the previous post, which you can find here. Let’s learn about a few more tenses.
