(CNN) – It was a short e-mail - a few simple lines. It appeared in my inbox on May 12, 2011. It had been forwarded several times until it found its way to me.
Use the past progressive and the past progressive to show a relationship with a another past event.
"He collapsed while on the set of 8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter on September 11, 2003. Ritter had become ill while working on the ABC series and ended up collapsing on set..."
Past Perfect is used to show that shomething happened before the action on the past.
"One Kurdish woman from West Yorkshire told BBC Radio Leeds she knew of 20 young men from West Yorkshire and Manchester who had travelled to Iraqi Kurdistan to fight IS."
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Use Past Perfect to talk about an action which happened before another one also in the past.
I would also like to inform that I won't be with you on the next class. Revision for a test. Thank you for your comprehension.
"Meanwhile, in what The Sunday Times billed as her final interview, she said she had given her daughter Melissa strict instructions on who should not be allowed to attend her funeral - but did not say who was on the list."
Use the Past Perfect to talk about something that happened before a specific time in the past.
"Rivers also said she had been preparing Melissa for her death."
Use the Past Perfect Progressive to talk about an action that was in progress before a specific time in the past.
“Once they had completed this part of the training, the project moved on to the third and final stage—wearing the exoskeleton. Nicolelis and his team had the patients perform a series of motor tasks in the suit while receiving feedback from the legs. Although the scientists had been preparing years for this, there was no down time. Every day was an opportunity to collect data, work on the bugs in the suit and train the patients.” http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2014/07/01/one-step-time
The past perfect was used to show that an action happened before another in the past and the past perfect progressive was used to talk about an action that was in progress before another in the past.
"A communications officer heard the shot, saw Dickson on the ground and asked him what had happened. Dickson told her he'd been hit and asked her to bring him inside "
Past perfect progressive is used to emphasize the repetition of an action before another action in the past
Use the past perfect to describe things that happen before another point in time in the past and the past perfect progressive is used to express how long something had been going on before something important happened in the past. "Ex-Employees Say Home Depot Left Data" Vulnerablehttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/business/ex-employees-say-home-depot-left-data-vulnerable.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LedeSum&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
"Allegations of voting fraud were reported by Glasgow City Council, with several instances of people turning up at voting booths in Scotland's largest city to vote, only to be told that they had already voted."
“The pig is as white as you can get,” says Rhee. “It’s just pale, refrigerator meat.” If the animals had been cooled quickly enough, however – at around 2C a minute – nearly 90% recovered when their blood was returned to their bodies, after having lain in limbo for more than an hour. “It’s the most amazing thing to witness – when the heartbeat comes back,” says Rhee.
"President Obama facing crises all over the world today including the Ebola outbreak in Africa, the terror threat from ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and the threat from Russia in Ukraine and Eastern Europe."
You can use the past perfect progressive to talk about events that happened in a specific time, or, about facts that happened at the same time. Ex. By 2000 I had gotten married. By the time I lived in New York I had been working at ABB.
(CNN) – It was a short e-mail - a few simple lines. It appeared in my inbox on May 12, 2011. It had been forwarded several times until it found its way to me.
ReplyDeleteUse the past progressive and the past progressive to show a relationship with a another past event.
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ReplyDelete"He collapsed while on the set of 8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter on September 11, 2003. Ritter had become ill while working on the ABC series and ended up collapsing on set..."
DeletePast Perfect is used to show that shomething happened before the action on the past.
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"One Kurdish woman from West Yorkshire told BBC Radio Leeds she knew of 20 young men from West Yorkshire and Manchester who had travelled to Iraqi Kurdistan to fight IS."
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Use Past Perfect to talk about an action which happened before another one also in the past.
I would also like to inform that I won't be with you on the next class. Revision for a test. Thank you for your comprehension.
"Meanwhile, in what The Sunday Times billed as her final interview, she said she had given her daughter Melissa strict instructions on who should not be allowed to attend her funeral - but did not say who was on the list."
ReplyDeleteUse the Past Perfect to talk about something that happened before a specific time in the past.
"Rivers also said she had been preparing Melissa for her death."
Use the Past Perfect Progressive to talk about an action that was in progress before a specific time in the past.
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“Once they had completed this part of the training, the project moved on to the third and final stage—wearing the exoskeleton. Nicolelis and his team had the patients perform a series of motor tasks in the suit while receiving feedback from the legs. Although the scientists had been preparing years for this, there was no down time. Every day was an opportunity to collect data, work on the bugs in the suit and train the patients.”
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2014/07/01/one-step-time
The past perfect was used to show that an action happened before another in the past and the past perfect progressive was used to talk about an action that was in progress before another in the past.
"A communications officer heard the shot, saw Dickson on the ground and asked him what had happened. Dickson told her he'd been hit and asked her to bring him inside "
ReplyDeletePast perfect progressive is used to emphasize the repetition of an action before another action in the past
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" the bike had been recovered on Friday "
ReplyDeletePast perfect progressive is used to talk about an action that was in progress before a specific time in the past.
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Arlan, you mentioned past parfect progressive, but the sentence is the past perfect passive...
Delete"It wouldn’t have been if we hadn’t have done this restoration job."
ReplyDeleteThe Past Perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past
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This is a 3rd conditional sentence. The use you mentioned is not really related to it.
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ReplyDeleteUse the past perfect to describe things that happen before another point in time in the past and the past perfect progressive is used to express how long something had been going on before something important happened in the past.
"Ex-Employees Say Home Depot Left Data"
Vulnerablehttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/business/ex-employees-say-home-depot-left-data-vulnerable.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LedeSum&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
"Allegations of voting fraud were reported by Glasgow City Council, with several instances of people turning up at voting booths in Scotland's largest city to vote, only to be told that they had already voted."
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“The pig is as white as you can get,” says Rhee. “It’s just pale, refrigerator meat.” If the animals had been cooled quickly enough, however – at around 2C a minute – nearly 90% recovered when their blood was returned to their bodies, after having lain in limbo for more than an hour. “It’s the most amazing thing to witness – when the heartbeat comes back,” says Rhee.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140704-i-bring-the-dead-back-to-life
Crisis Mode
ReplyDelete"President Obama facing crises all over the world today including the Ebola outbreak in Africa, the terror threat from ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and the threat from Russia in Ukraine and Eastern Europe."
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where are the verb tenses that were supposed to be there? I can't see any past perfect
DeleteYou can use the past perfect progressive to talk about events that happened in a specific time, or, about facts that happened at the same time.
ReplyDeleteEx. By 2000 I had gotten married. By the time I lived in New York I had been working at ABB.