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Read the following examples:

1. Did you meet your parents?

2. She played a lot of games when she was younger.
3. I went to Kerala in my last vacations.

G Forms of Past Continuous Tense.
Question

I was I
he, she was not was he, she
it wasn’t it
speaking. speaking?
we were were we
you were not you
they weren’t they

G Uses of Past Continuous Tense.
· It is used to express an action in progress at some moment before the time of
speaking.

· Sometimes, simple past tense and past continuous tense are used together to
suggest that something happened when another action was in progress.

Read the following examples:
1. What were you writing when the principal arrived?

2. The thief arrived when he was sleeping .

G Forms of Present Perfect Tense.
Question
I have
we ’ve I
you have not Have we
they haven’t spoken. you spoken?

he has ’s they
she has not he, she
Has
it hasn’t it

G Uses of Present Perfect Tense .
It is used –
· to express an action that has just been completed.

· to express an action completed sometime in the past, but linked with the
present. The action in the past has a result now.

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