THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE - Dİ’Lİ GEÇMİŞ ZAMAN
A. USE
1. The Simple Past tense is used to talk about completed actions in the past:
Simple Past, geçmişte belirli bir zamanda yapılmış eylemleri ifade etmek için kullanılır. “Yesterday, last night, two weeks ago, in 2002″ gibi zarflar kullanılabilir.
I graduated from the university in 2003.
He came from Berlin last night.
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Past modals come in two forms. The first type is the easiest and usually requires only a simple word change:
| I can drive. | (present ability) |
| I could drive when I was 16. | (past ability) |
| I have to go to California. | (present obligation) |
| I had to go to California. | (past obligation) |
| Lenny will pay tomorrow. | (future intention) |
| Lenny said he would pay tomorrow. | (future reported from the past) |
Past conditionals are used when talking about decisions or actions that you wish had been different. They indicate hypothetical situations from the past using “if” statements.
To form the past conditional, use past perfect in the “if” clause. Verbs in the main clause will depend on whether you are referring to the present or the past.
Past perfect tense is used to indicate that one action occurred before another action in the past. In other words, past perfect tense indicates the first of the two actions.*
For example,
When I woke up this morning, my roommate had left already.
After I had eaten my dinner, I went to see a movie.
Before I arrived at the theater, the movie had already begun.
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