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by Macarena Alexandra Alvarez Valenzuela0 views·Updated Oct 27, 2020

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  1. So why do we decide to use the past?
  2. Perfect? In general, we used a simple past to talk
  3. about events that occurred in the past.
  4. When we're telling a story, we use the simple past.
  5. For most of our story, we use the past perfect
  6. to make clear which action happened first, in which action
  7. happened. Second, this allows us to add additional details to
  8. our story that are necessary to understand the context.
  9. Or this also tells us about previous experiences that happened
  10. prior to the telling of the story.
  11. Let's see how this works with some exercises.
  12. Are you ready?
  13. Okay, so let's look at these sentences and think off
  14. the missing birth.
  15. You can grab a pen and a piece of paper
  16. to write your answers down.
  17. Remember that you can force the video to accomplish this
  18. desk. We went back to Seethe House, where we hot
  19. lived when we were Children.
  20. Number two.
  21. The crocodile was hungry because it hadn't eaten anything for
  22. two days.
  23. Number three I run to the train station, but the
  24. train hot left.
  25. Number four.
  26. They got to the movie theater late, and the movie
  27. had started Number five.
  28. She couldn't catch the plane because she had forgotten her
  29. passport. Well done.
  30. Excellent. You guys