Practice Exercise #2

 Topics: Describe a busy schedule, Past perfect, Time expressions, Intensifiers.

For this section I will make a review of the topics learned through on a exercise using all the structures, vocabulary and more to show my improvement at these topics.

Describe a Busy Schedule

Sub-topics: Past Perfect (Grammar), Past participle (verbs), Time expressions.

Busy people ALWAYS have a lot of things to do all day, especially when others add more things to do... For that reason, most people have a schedule to help themselves to put a little more order along their day.

For example, I'm going to describe the agenda of Sebastian Michaelis, a victorian butler:

All the actions were realized in one day, as you can see the grammar is in present, but what if it's now 8:00 PM? So, we are going to describe those activities using past and PAST PARTICIPLE in order to achieve describe a busy schedule.

Time expressions

 Time expressions or Mark expressions

Sub-topics: Past perfect

Time expressions are used to define the order of the actions , what happened first, what happened second, what is happening right now, etc and usually are used with the past perfect tense.

Here we got some common time expressions:

After = Después     Before = Antes    When = Cuando     By = A eso de...       

As soon as = Tan pronto como...  By the time = Al momento de...      Already = Ya    

 Yet = Aún - Todavía

Examples:

• When I had taken an aspirin, I felt better.
• Before we locked the door, we had called a taxi.
• As soon as it had stopped raining, we took our dog for a walk.
• By the time the train had left, we reached the railway station
• After he had seen the accident, he spoke to s poiliceman.

There's some more time expressions, like:

Examples: 

• AN HOUR AGO she had left
• TOMORROW is my birthday
• SOON we'll be at the party

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Past Perfect

Past Perfect Grammar

Sub-topics: Past participle (verbs), Time expressions

We use the past perfect to describe an acction that ocurred before a specific time in the past. Past perfect is used to talk about an action which happened BEFORE another action in the PAST.

Example: Lenny had done his homework.

or

Lenny'd done his homework.

Contractions:

I had = I'd

You had = You'd

She had = She'd

He had = He'd

It had = It'd

They had = They'd

We had = We'd

We can use a timeline to describe the actions:

We need to identify the order of the sentences between simple past and past pasticiple. It's very easy, the PAST PARTICIPLE always happened first and SIMPLE PAST is the second one.

The time expressions that are usually used to identfy both sentences are:

Before = 2. Simple Past - 1. Past Participle
After = 1. Past Participle - 2. Simple Past

Now, we have to form sentences using the timeline examples. Past perfect is formed by:

After + Subject + Aux. Had + Past participle (Verb) + , + Subject + Past simple (verb) + Complement

 Before + Subject + Past simple (verb) + , + Subject + Aux. Had + Past participle (Verb) + Complement

Examples.

1. After I had woken up, I had breakfast. or Before I had breakfast, I had woken up.
2. After I had had breakfast, I took the bus. or Before I took the bus, I had had breakfast.
3. After I had taken the bus, I arrived to the University. or Before I arrived to the University, I had taken the bus.
4. After had arrived to the University, english class started. or Before english class started, I had arrived to the Univeristy.