Past Indefinite Tense
Hello everybody, today we are going to learn the past indefinite tense which is one of the most daily using tenses. As it is a human nature that we either prefer talking about our past memories or make plans and discuss them in the future tense.
The past indefinite tense has a unique recognition and extremely significance in the English language just like the present indefinite tense as per academic as well as competitive exam’s point of views. Let’s learn it with examples, formation, uses in a detailed.
We always use second form of verb (V2) with all the subjects in the past indefinite tense affirmative sentence whether it is a singular subject or a plural subject.
Everybody played games during school days.
Here is a table given below with the different forms of the verbs. You will be surprised to know the names of verbs in the English grammar. The second form of the verbs is known as the past form in the grammar hence always used in the past tense.
You must have a doubt why we always use the V2 in the past indefinite tense, here is the answer to match with your expectations and is enough satisfactory to eradicate your queries. Past form of verb that we usually call V2 but when its name is past hence it is used in the past tense only.
In the negative sentences we use a past indefinite tense helping verb which is ‘DID’ and add not after it. After the combination of Did + Not we always use first form of the verbs because Did itself is the second form the verb hence after it we always use V1 only.
I did not like waking up early in the morning.
When it comes to asking questions about the past events, you need to form questions but the interrogative sentences are quite different from others hence it differ from other’s formations too.
[ Did + Subject + V1 + According to sentences +? ]
This type of questions are generally asked to know the answer in either No or Yes when there is no need for the explanations.
Question: Did you watch End Game movie?
Answer : Yes or No.
[W.H.F. word + did + Subject + V1 + according to sentence+?]
Why did the people want to deceive their dear ones just for money?
Identities of past indefinite tense
Past habitual actions
When you talk about your past habits you use past indefinite tense to represent it.
I went to school.
Rahul often missed the class.
In this use you can describe the past historical actions that took place long ago but were inscribed in. Golden words. I have shared a few examples from there.
1) India celebrated the Independence Day for the very first time on 15th August in 1947.
2) The people of India elected Narendra Modi as the prime minister of India in 2014 with a huge majority in the election.
3) The SLV -3 launch headed by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam took place in 1983 successfully.
You may use some adverbs in the sentences only for the past tense.
These include any past dates 2017/1999/2014,
yesterday and day before yesterday,
To indicate a past completed action:
I completed my content writing course from the University of Leeds last month.
They applied for an education loan for their son 2 days before.
Without adverb of time
We sometimes use the facts that don’t need adverbs of time they themselves imply the time.
Lord Rama killed the Ravana in the Ramleela.
He showed his possession as if I were his son.
The Dehli Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) _______ (announce) the major decisions for upcoming festivals Diwali and Chhat puja.
These were some uses of this tense I hope that the past indefinite tense examples helped you understand it better if still there is any bout left, please let us know in the comment box. I assure you of replying to your queries.
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