NARRATIVE TENSES

Narrative tenses are verb tenses that are used to talk about the past. They are often found in stories and descriptions of past events, such as personal anecdotes.

The four narrative tenses are the past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous and one or more of these can be used in a sentence.

The most common of these is the past simple. Three other tenses, past continuous, the past perfect simple and the past perfect continuous can help us to say what we want more effeciently. However, it should be remembered that almost any story can be told using the past simple.

Grammatical form

Subject + past tense He went to the library.

Subject + be (past) + verb -ing He was going to the library.

Subject + had + past participle He had gone to live abroad.

Subject + had + been + verb -ing He had been going to the library for months before getting his degree.

QUIZZES ON NARRATIVE TENSES

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