Practice Makes Perfect by Jean Yates

Author:Jean Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2020-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Telling what happened with the preterite tense

To tell the events of the story, use the preterite tense. Events are often preceded by expressions that indicate the sequence of the action, the time of the action, or that something triggered the action. These are considered preterite signals.

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There are three patterns in a narration:

Simultaneous actions: imperfect + imperfect

To tell that two actions were going on at the same time, put both verbs in the imperfect.

Interrupted action: imperfect + preterite

To tell that one action was already in progress and that another interrupted it, put the first verb—the action in progress—in the imperfect, and the second verb—the action that interrupts—in the preterite.

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