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Past simple and past continuous

Present continuous and 'going to' The zero and first conditionals Modals of deduction and speculation The past perfect Adjectives and adverbs The third conditional Linking devices: cause and effect ...
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Past continuous and past simple - interrupted activities

English speakers often use the past simple and past continuous together to say that something happened in the middle of something else. In this episode of The Flatmates, Alice says: '.when I arrived ...
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Sentence grammar: Past, present or future tense

Woman in red cardigan: People do get their tenses of a verb confused. Making sure that the verb is in the same tense all the way through a document or a letter or an email. If you read it to yourself ...
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Past simple and past continuous

Present continuous and 'going to' Verb patterns The present perfect with ‘ever’ and ‘never’ The present perfect with 'for' and 'since' Comparatives and superlatives Present perfect with 'just', ...