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Macarena Alexandra Alvarez Valenzuela
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Updated Oct 27, 2020
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So why do we decide to use the past?
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Perfect? In general, we used a simple past to talk
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about events that occurred in the past.
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When we're telling a story, we use the simple past.
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For most of our story, we use the past perfect
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to make clear which action happened first, in which action
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happened. Second, this allows us to add additional details to
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our story that are necessary to understand the context.
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Or this also tells us about previous experiences that happened
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prior to the telling of the story.
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Let's see how this works with some exercises.
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Are you ready?
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Okay, so let's look at these sentences and think off
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the missing birth.
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You can grab a pen and a piece of paper
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to write your answers down.
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Remember that you can force the video to accomplish this
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desk. We went back to Seethe House, where we hot
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lived when we were Children.
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Number two.
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The crocodile was hungry because it hadn't eaten anything for
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two days.
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Number three I run to the train station, but the
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train hot left.
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Number four.
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They got to the movie theater late, and the movie
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had started Number five.
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She couldn't catch the plane because she had forgotten her
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passport. Well done.
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Excellent. You guys
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