ALL English Past Tenses Explained in 12 Minutes [including USED TO and WOULD!]

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Learn all about English past tenses in 12 minutes: how and when to use them, and the differences between the different past tenses. In this video, we're going to discuss the following past tenses in English: the past simple, the past continuous, the past perfect, the past perfect continuous, and the phrases 'used to' and 'would'.
We will also look at the differences between them, to make sure you're not mixing them up.
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Here's a quick look at what each of the English past tenses looks like. To learn how to use them, watch the video :)
Past simple:
I played tennis last week. ('play + ed' is a regular past simple form)
I went to the cinema last night. ('went' is an irregular past simple form, the present tense form is 'go')
To ask a question, use 'did' + present tense form:
Did you play tennis last week?
Did you go to the cinema last night?
To make it into a negative sentence, use 'did not' + present tense form:
I did not play tennis.
I did not go to the cinema.
Past continuous:
I was playing tennis between 8 and 9 this morning.
So, it's 'was' or 'were' + verb + ing
To ask a question, invert 'was'/'were' and the subject:
Was I playing tennis between 8 and 9 this morning?
To make it negative, add 'not' after 'was'/'were':
I was not playing.
Past perfect:
When I went to London, I realised I had been there before.
So, you need 'had' and the past participle form (third form). 'Been' is the past participle form of the verb 'to be'.
To ask a question, invert 'had' and the subject:
Had you been to London before we travelled there together?
To make it negative, add 'not' after 'had':
I had not been to London.
Past perfect continuous:
We had been talking when you arrived.
You need 'had' + 'been' + verb + ing
To ask a question, invert 'had' and the subject:
Had you been talking when I arrived?
To make it negative, add 'not' after 'had':
We had not been talking.
Used to:
I used to like spaghetti when I was a child.
'Used to' is followed by a verb in the present tense.
To ask a question, do it in the same way you do it in the past simple tense. So:
Did + subject + use to + verb
Did you use to like spaghetti when you were a child?
To make it into a negative sentence, say:
I didn't use to like spaghetti.
Would:
We would go to the seaside a lot when we were younger.
Use 'would' and a verb in the present tense.
To ask a question, invert 'would' and the subject:
Would you go to the seaside a lot when you were younger?
To make it into a negative sentence, say:
We wouldn't go to the seaside much when we were younger.
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@alendolicanin4771 3 ай бұрын

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@english_with_aga 3 ай бұрын

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@sangarefassou3211 3 ай бұрын

Hello my dearest... Thanks for everything you do for us, thanks again, there is something about present perfect,, For example, I am at the hospital I didn't return yet in this case, is better to say that: I have gone to the hospital, or I am at the hospital.. Thanks for everything

@kuijaye Жыл бұрын

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@AbdelChak-gy6nz 14 күн бұрын

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@arkanmounir5441 8 ай бұрын

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@ukaszgonera1814 7 ай бұрын

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@milicadjurdjev2927 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for the clearly made distinction between the past tenses!!!

@Sandeepaexpect.3307 9 ай бұрын

Beautiful lesson ☺️. Love this lesson ❤

@premjitmissal6302 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the clear teaching of Past tense, Madam. Indeed I enjoyed learning. Please keep teaching us. God bless

@EarfulEye 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant explanation!! Thank you!!

@user-yl3li4if7g 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, it's getting clearer to me now about every english past tenses, after watching this video. I had understood about all the english past tenses, but I still get confused to pick the appropriate tenses every time i talk to someone, and since english is not my main language, when i speak english i oftenly convert my language first to english in my mind, and the result usually not very good. (i think i should memorize them more, and practice more, watching more english videos). But, as i said before, your video is very helpfull to me. Thank's again!

@suadalahmadi3188 Жыл бұрын

Very detailed explanation for showing the differences of different past tenses. Thank you

@english_with_aga Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@ollybaloyi4406 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the lesson, my difficulties was using the past perfect in constructing a sentence.

@avelinohuetelleixa1390 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant lesson about past tenses , thank you , Dziekuje bardzo !

@Hello-ub8gq 14 күн бұрын

Very well made. Absolutely understood the past tenses.

@artinshorttime5604 8 ай бұрын

thank you my best teacher in all time. the diffcult in the past tenses is the word would because i learned from other english language teacher they have been using would same as will .and same thing for shall and should .

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@Learningtogether09 2 ай бұрын

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@Training.Engineering 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much a very useful video and it's perfect.

@mohamedabdiali7313 Жыл бұрын

Very useful, Thanks for helping us

@sheniulanova790 Жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation. The most difficult for me is Past perfect and sometimes past perfect continues.

@jeangermain4391 6 ай бұрын

For me, the most difficult tense to learn is the"Past Perfect Continuous" Thank you for the lesson

@aliciabouckaert 8 ай бұрын

Wow, OMG these videos are so good; I really love them. You often start- certainly in your Shorts- with 'What's the difference between ...', then I'll pause the video, and try to explain it for myself before I listen further to your explanation. Excellent: question, reflection, correct answer. BTW you have a captivating smile; definitely, one of my best online teachers. Before, I never wanted to learn the English Tenses in a systematic way, because I thought of going into it in a more intuitive manner. Now, I'm really studying these tenses with you next to me and that is so comforting. I've now underpinned my intuitive approach with a more systematic understanding. Really great. Thanks a lot. Best regards from Belgium (Bruges!). If you ever come to Belgium, please give me a ring, I can show you around if you like. Best regards!

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@forawhale2475 6 ай бұрын

That straightforward explanation! thank you!

@english_with_aga 6 ай бұрын

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@tabitha378 5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much . Very clear explanation and helpful.Past perfect and past perfect continuous is difficult

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@mikaz76 Жыл бұрын

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@alemuwude7201 5 ай бұрын

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@english_with_aga 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@donnaw9668 10 ай бұрын

This was very well explained and helpful. It’s ok when you know automatically which tense to use, but explaining it isn’t so easy, so thank you for your excellent and clear explanations. 😊

@english_with_aga 10 ай бұрын

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@nitinadars9335 23 күн бұрын

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@abundancemindshift Ай бұрын

Thank you very much for the explanation ! Finally I understand some things here ! Where do we position the present perfect into that ?

@mustapha2 Жыл бұрын

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@english_with_aga Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you found it useful!

@zanarasoul 8 ай бұрын

Clear explanation thank you, the difficult tenses is past perfect continuous .

@senamilla 4 ай бұрын

i've never understood this subject so clearly before. thank you so much!! 🎉

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@SanjaySanju-fn7bo 10 ай бұрын

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@Kotyamba389 4 ай бұрын

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@sandramancera6580 Жыл бұрын

Hello, thanks for the lesson, for me the most difficult past tenses are: past perfect, past perfect continuous.

@artinshorttime5604 8 ай бұрын

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@bobychrisify Ай бұрын

Hi Aga, you’re just great!!! At the first moment I thought to myself "she must be original British - no doubt, because her accent sounds sooo British". In the whole tutorial there is just one little moment, it's the moment when you say the word "that", that gives you away. Instead of pronouncing a “th”, you tend to say a “d”. I am pretty sure you have noticed this tiny little thing in your video. I mean, actually it' s clear to me that there must be another linguistic background because of your name. But, all my respect to you because of your wonderful British accent! I am Andy. My Dad was American and my Mom German. I got to know my father late, I must have been 11 or 12 years old when I met him first. So, it was just the right time for me to become a near native speaker. But as you can imagine probably, I more or less caught up this typical American mid western accent from my Dad. He lived in Kansas City at that time. Many years later I started to work as a flight attendant with Lufthansa. When I was employed with Lufthansa, I shared an apartment together with a colleague and she had been engaged with a British guy. At first I was laughing when hearing this funny British accent. It sounded strange to me. But I more and more began loving it. So I started imitating this “funny” accent - just for fun at the beginning. And later on I was so deep in there, that suddenly I started doing on board announcements with a real British accent. I remember a situation. I had just finished the boarding announcement and I went into the cabin offering beverages as a guy about my age asked me: “was it you? the one who just did the announcements?” “Yes, I answered”. “Come on he said, now when doing the service you sound like a mid western guy and before, I thought you were British because of your accent - that’s incredible he added. Today I am actually happy about the fact, that nobody recognizes where I’m originating from. At least nobody recognizes the fact that I am German. And that makes me happy with my English. Am I in England, people ask me “where are you from? From Australia? Am I in the US, the ask me, are u British? And these questions are compliments. Once an English professor told me not to play with my nice American accent, but I did - for fun. So, now it is like it is. Sometimes when visiting my American relatives they ask me: “Did you turn being British now?” Your tutorial about how to adopt a real British accent is exactly that what I was doing many years ago. Thanks again for your brilliant British tutorials. Please don’t hesitate correcting my lines to you. You might use them for another tutorial demonstrating the wrong tenses I might have used. Best regards - Andy.

@alemuwude7201 5 ай бұрын

I love the way you teach English

@mubarakzubairu3608 8 ай бұрын

This is great. Can please make a video on the use of “will and would”

@ottoflower4395 4 ай бұрын

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@english_with_aga 3 ай бұрын

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@hanadhussein9047 2 ай бұрын

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@english_with_aga 7 ай бұрын

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@hanialihassan4847 Жыл бұрын

Thanks teacher for your simple explanation The most dificulty is past perfect tense

@saurabhpurohit5810 8 ай бұрын

Thank you mam for giving me knowledge & teaching me tenses

@chanduib 3 күн бұрын

Thanks for the video

@idabagusdarmaputra125 2 ай бұрын

Great lesson over past tenses in English..thanks..I started learning English when I entered yunior high school in 1968,but just a little and then was continued when I was studying in senior high school...so when I started study in university I had studied about basics of English..then I had been learning of English befire I met you in yutube...I used to make travelling abroad with bad English..next I would like make travelling abroad with good enough in English..hopefully

@sashasirghii2729 Жыл бұрын

Past perfect and past perfect continues . Thanks 👍

@cyber400-yt7zt 2 ай бұрын

Thank you teacher I understood well❤

@Fatimabful Жыл бұрын

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@ThanomsriSangho 7 ай бұрын

Very thanks for video

@cemal8121 8 ай бұрын

Excellent!

@randomlifevideos3271 5 ай бұрын

We can also use Past Continuous to talk about past events that happen at the same time (or events that are interrupted). I was cooking the dinner when my cat came in. (two past event that happen at the same time) Past Progressive Continuous (to emphasize duration, to show interruption). I had been cooking the dinner for 2 hours when my cat came in.

@user-jm9eh4wb9j 2 ай бұрын

That's something invented - 'Past Progressive Continuous' ))) Maybe you meant Past Perfect Continuous (or Past Perfect Progressive)?

@princeKB360 4 ай бұрын

Simply Great 🎉

@bobychrisify Ай бұрын

As a near native englisch speaker it is difficult for me to tell you what is the most difficult past tense form for me. I just speak and I am not conscious about the tenses at all. When doing an English test online, just for fun, most of the times my results vary between 89 or 90 percent and sometimes even a 100 percent. But at the moment I do prepare a little bit for an English test with Lufthansa regarding a job as a flight attendant. In the comments of applicants I’ve read that even native speakers sometimes don’t reach the 100 percent. My compliments to you ! You’re doing a great job and you’re doing it very sympathetically.

@english_with_aga Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I wish you all the best with the exam!

@davidpineros5106 7 ай бұрын

Well, hearing your class, your voice, I got traveling on the time, many years ago, I was luckly to life for a short time y Canterbury and made short trips to Wistable Beach. [Sorry for my grammar, I'm still trying improve it.]

@girishkrishna4654 6 ай бұрын

Thank you Agnieszka Murdoch ❤

@user-pc3kg2uu5s 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks teacher

@mohamedhussein2001 2 жыл бұрын

The hardest grammatical structure is Past Perfect. Thanks for your brilliant explanation ~ I can't wait your next tips.

@english_with_aga 2 жыл бұрын

It’s hard, I know! What else wiuld you like me to teach?

@garynilesunson848 3 ай бұрын

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@user-eb5sk5qe3e 2 ай бұрын

This video made my day I have understood very clearly. I have been watching this video for 3 times because I wasn’t able to clear the past perfect and perfect continuous now I understood properly ❤ thank you so much mam. This is my first video that I have watched on your channel, I’m your new subscriber from India ❤

@english_with_aga 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your feedback and for subscribing!

@Ilovenature12.3 4 ай бұрын

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@khaledalassaf4323 Ай бұрын

Ilove you ,als l had thought that past perfect continuous is the most difficult one but after your video l found it very easy

@user-gd3ih9xj4o 8 ай бұрын

Really, I appreciate a lot.

@SankarP11 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Teacher🎉

@AtakltiSolomon 6 ай бұрын

I thank you teacher!

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@english_with_aga 9 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

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@venkatsuubramanyam733 9 ай бұрын

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@english_with_aga 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😃

@humyralamia9089 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic dear

@GROBIDOCHON 8 ай бұрын

Thanks Aga very clear and interesting 🙂 but could you let me know please, why at 10:48 you said « we’ve been talking about … » ? because it’s not the past of another past, or am I mistaken ? thanks

@harinigunasekar5361 2 ай бұрын

really your videos are so helpful and it is amazing Love from India❤

@english_with_aga 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment, glad I can help!

@afghanfans455 2 жыл бұрын

Hi dear teacher it’s Abdul. This lesson is perfect and I’ve problems with the past perfect and past had been and have been I need to see more lesson and thank u so much

@english_with_aga 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment Abdul! I have a video coming up where I explain ‘have been’ (the present perfect). What else would you like to see?

@afghanfans455 2 жыл бұрын

I would like to see more vocabulary

@a.ctmaster 2 жыл бұрын

I got it, tnx 🌺

@mohammednaeemshekh2448 10 ай бұрын

Very nice

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@englishforre.1458 9 ай бұрын

Dear Madam your teaching is simply fabulous. There is nothing difficult in understanding your lesson. Please let me learn more. Thank you. Raju from India.

@english_with_aga 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Raju!