Grammar Test - Past Tenses | SIMPLE, CONTINUOUS, PERFECT

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

You *tested* your English while you *were watching* this video. You *had been scrolling* through KZbin looking for something to watch when you realised you *had not seen* this lesson! Can you write 2-3 sentences using all four past tenses?

[@yusufilham473]

- Dina screamed as loud as possible. - Dina was screaming as loud as possible when She was in the home. - Dina had screamed as loud as possible. - Dina had been screaming as loud as possible for twenty minutes

[@mahfuzaanika9592]

Today when I was scrolling facebook I remembered it is my bestfriend's birthday!! I had been planning so many things for the whole week but sadly forgot to wish her at 12 o clock😶😶

[@davesmith6436]

Here are my sentences, Emma: My friend called me when I was driving, so I couldn't answer him. By the time I arrived at home, the dinner had already been cooked. Apparently, it had been cooking for about an hour 'n' a half before I came home. (thanks to my wife!) Dear Emma, I guess I managed to make up my own examples to demonstrate the lesson was internalized by me completely! But if I mistook anywhere, please, correct me!

[@rachidlakhdar4209]

Thank you so much for this lesson.

[@الشعرالعربي-ك2ح]

Thank you so much Emma

[@johncarlobenin1216]

I've been teaching English for a decade now and this video helps me a lot to understand the tenses of verbs easily, so I share it to my students.

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Wonderful to hear, John! Where are you teaching English?

[@cupkin4850]

I'm considered to be the best English speaker of my class yet I still cannot wrap my head around basic tenses

[@kaitmob3847]

That can be a because you have talked English from a young age and can tell which ones are correct with recognition instead of rules

[@arna664]

@@kaitmob3847 nice explanation

[@fernandoorozco3474]

Past continuous 5/5 Past Perfect Simple 5/5 Past Perfect Continuous 4/5 Narrative Tenses: 6/19 Excellent 👍

[@Wisky19]

The best way to learn english is practiced everyday such as writing, speaking, reading and listening and the best part will be having talking with a native english.

[@MrSharingINFO]

Unfortunately many native speakers do not know the proper English.

[@evamaria3146]

I like English grammar very much and I practice it every day! Thanks Emma, this method you explain is so interesting!

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Happy to hear you enjoyed this type of lesson!

[@sasansafari841]

I think, the best convenient situation to test ourselves is having a conversation with native speakers

[@sabahbiba8810]

So true 👌🏻 I agree with you

[@NelsonThambi]

Even I agree with you

[@username3543]

It's a wonderful way to make fool out of ourselves, isn't it?

[@sahrawiyasimpatica2203]

I agree with you too,good idea

[@sasansafari841]

@@username3543 it depends on our attitude mate

[@niveditapallai2586]

I have been learning these narrative tenses from so far from you ma'am . I experienced a lot from your videos , these are amazing but are trickier but THANK YOU ma'am for always get behind us.😊😊

[@tizzygo]

This lesson was EPIC!!!! Definitely one of the most useful lesson that I've ever watched! Thanks a lot, Emma!!! Wow.

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Wonderful to hear Tiziano!

[@starpinklittle2811]

Past Simple: Wrote Past Continuous: Was writing. Past Perfect Simple: Has/had Written. Past Perfect Continuous: Have/had been Writting. Yeah; I HAVE A HUGE LIST WITH ALL VERBS IN EVERY ALL TENSES.😊

[@АндрейШешуков-с7ф]

Past simle is wrote ! 😉

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Great work! Remember that: PRESENT Perfect Simple: have/has written Past Perfect Simple: had written. PRESENT Perfect Continuous: have/has been WRITING. Past Perfect Continuous: had been WRITING.

[@S.Yucel1962]

Dear Emma; When I watch your videos, I think like this. As if there is no word that I do not understand from English, I do not understand that much in other channels. So glad that I have you.

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Glad to have you here Sinan!

[@davesmith6436]

Yes, I'm first here! Hey there Emma, our lovely coach! As I see, you do love grammar lessons, don't you? Don't worry, I'm fond of them too! I'm very delighted to have a good practice together with you, that does inspire me to move on further 'n' further, again 'n' again! Thanks so much for another wonderful video! See you soon!

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

You were first again?! I do love creating opportunities to learn AND test your grammar skills 😊

[@davesmith6436]

@@mmmEnglish_Emma Oops!.. As it seemed to me, I was supposed to be the first today but then I made sure a few people had come here a little bit earlier than me, I was at roughly fifth, sorry ma'am. Just everyone wanna be the first actually, right? (in an ironic way) Awesome, I also love checking out my knowledge once in a while, that can motivate more than you can think! Thanks a lot, Emma for the good job for the most dedicated your students, so happy being with you! Best of wishes!

[@senthil8372]

@@mmmEnglish_Emma . I do love watching every videos & commenting after I had watched. But neither I get a ❤ heart nor a reply from mmmm English Emma. It's unfortunate 😭😭😭

[@knyawhsee8072]

This is the best way to learn how to understand the English grammar. Thank you.

[@andrewpico7000]

I love you Emma!

[@andrewpico7000]

You are very clear and excellent pronunciation, easily and fun to understand what you trying to teach us. Thank you!!!

[@samsan6929]

Ma'am kindly make a course on narration of all types (direct indirect speech). I've been struggling with it for so long. It will help me a lot if you consider my kind request and I'm really thankful to you for this amazing effort that you did for us.

[@englishchannel3786]

Great idea

[@vaishalinain1440]

I did mistakes mostly in past perfect and was confused whether to use didn't or hadn't during negative sentences.

[@parsazinaly1859]

u are so beautiful :)

[@jeanmarktrocio8267]

Didn't and did are only used in past simple questions.

[@yariksveshnikov8404]

When I left a house this morning it was snowing. While I was studying at the academy there was more snow, unfortunately. Finally, I left the academy and went to the tram stop. But there were only twelve standing. An old woman said she had been waiting for the tram for over an hour, I was shocked when I heard about that. The streets were covered with snow especially the one I was on, it was quite atmospheric. When I was waiting for the tram I was paying close attention to my feet because I was afraid to slip in the snow. It had been snowing all morning so the streets were uncomfortable to walk there. The road was full of cars and it was traffic jams. One man told me the reason for the traffic jams It was a car. All the snow had caused a car to slide through a red light and into oncoming traffic. The man, who told me about that, had already called the emergency traffic but they hadn't arrived at the scene yet. A nurse, who had witnessed the accident, was helping injured people. The evening news had warned about wild weather but the warnings hadn't convinced people from driving. By the time the emergency services got to the scene, the nurse had treated the injuries already, she kept their lives and the drivers had exchanged insurance details there

[@j.s.b_]

Quiz is fun, it's really good to fix one's tenses . You did a great work👍👍❤

[@chiragkumar8576]

You are the best teacher mam to teach English

[@AQ-uc4bb]

Hello Emmmmma..! Sincerely this test wasn’t easy to me at all, but , I going to repeat it as many times I needed. ..all THE 19 sentences .... are very important to me. I understand everything but Most of the time I cannot communicate with others well , sometimes it was about certainly circumstances., to much responsibilities ( a lot to do) and sometimes my phone acts weird.. lol ., but I surly understand all of my great teacher and couches.! Love you all.

[@seid_k9990]

Wow this was EPIC🤩 Thank you MMMENGLISH!🥰

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Glad you enjoyed it, Seid!

[@ivanlau7430]

The lesson was fantastic in helping my understanding, though I must work harder so that I could learn the subtle differences between your answers and mine.

[@josecruz-vega2070]

I know your a quite oustanding English teacher. Improving my English through your lessons is fenomenal!!!

[@hakansarac5243]

Polite smile, gesture and impressive voice, all in all another great video, I didn't know how else to say it. Greeting from Turkey again.

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

😊 Thank you, Hakan!

[@Britishempire3545]

@@mmmEnglish_Emma dear madam. I am glad to tell you that i hav bee watching your videos for a long time that's why i got to learn speaking english and i will keep in continues because i want to give IELTS exam in the future. In addition to IELTS i want to become a english speaker as native speak. I am Zubair from Bangladesh.

[@nikolamilicic9638]

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[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

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[@pranjalkumar2689]

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[@tiany5430]

I had been waiting for few minutes the result of rapid COVID19 test. I had waited paciently. I was cooking the supper when the doorbell rang. Thank so much for the challenge. More videos about tenses. That's a very important part of the speech. Greetings from Germany. Best regards😀

[@dilankamendis4737]

While I was trying to find a good English course for myself, I accidentally found your channel. Since then I have been watching your videos. I started learning English when I was a baby but still I am learning. I had been learning English in old school way and it didn't help at all. Hope you will read my story while having a cup of coffee😀

[@rositahakimi90]

This lesson was excellent and challenging I've listened to it 50 times lol thank you, Emma!!!!

[@TimesEnglish.]

I had been learning English for over ten years by the time I found mmmEnglish. While I was watching this lesson, I relized the way to use all past tenses as well as how to combine them all together.

[@chsanro]

First...thanks Emma for this video..I hope u continue doing videos on grammar

[@LauraValeriaPerez]

Hello Emma! I'm from Argentina. I was studied English before but this year I'm starting again and your videos are really helpfull to me. I have been seeing a lot of them and I want to thank you for all the content that you created and shared with us. Send you a big hug!

[@fathimazohara7538]

You are only the tutor with whom I get confidence that I can do it

[@malikmuhammadusmanrafiq286]

You don't know but you're a true gem, helping a lot of people over the world by making understanding strong and easier. ♥️♥️♥️

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

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[@jean-yveslegall2562]

I have a lot of work to do with tenses. Round 3 was probably the most challenging in this lesson. I'll have to come back on this lesson a few times! Thank you for this lesson Emma 👍😀

[@sachiniramasinghe9678]

Fancy seeing you Emma! I could test my knowledge. ‘N’ today, I’m the one of early birds. Thank you very much! ♥️💚

[@davesmith6436]

Hello Sachini! How was this quiz hard for you or not?

[@sachiniramasinghe9678]

@@davesmith6436 nope. It was easy to me. Because I watched the previous lesson ‘n’ grabbed a paper 📄’n’ wrote a note ‘n’ then learnt by heart.

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Good to see you, Sachini! Glad you enjoyed the lesson (and studied well!)

[@davesmith6436]

@@sachiniramasinghe9678 Oh.. glad to hear this! You're making a definite progress the lesson by lesson, that's evidently! Keep it up further!

[@search778]

The best English teacher!

[@lauraroshkova8499]

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[@priyanshusingh3451]

I am addicted to this channel

[@SuperJuan487]

I love this idea of ​​yours to pay attention to whoever comments to you, you are unique. Thanks to you my listening has been improving a lot. I realize that when you are talking, you do slow and understandable Greetings from México

[@johndirik9720]

How can I pass the time learning without you, I'll never put up with my self Emma.

[@sahrawiyasimpatica2203]

Was waiting

[@loaloaa6735]

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[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

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[@theghost-zl1mf]

Good efternon ema i hope that you use the subtitle

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

You can turn the subtitles on if you want to!

[@theghost-zl1mf]

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[@hanumantmanigupta7000]

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[@eduardoferrer3514]

It was amazing story where to pick the correct grammar in the sentence, thank you teacher Emma for sharing your knowledge. I love you...

[@busrakesgin9118]

- my father cleaned the house yesterday (past simple) - we were watching a movie when the doorbell rang (past continuous) - i arrived at my friend's house but they had started playing without me (past lerfect) - i was very tired because i had been working all day (past perfect continuous)

[@robertamassimi7128]

Hi, Emma, I watched the lesson and everything was quite fine, I made two mistakes, the tricky thing is when to use the past ten or the past present perfect, but I'll promise you, I will get through it. Bye and thank you...beso 😍💖

[@gabriellagirardi4741]

This lesson has helped me a lot. Thanks a lot

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Glad to hear that!

[@anandprakash46]

wow this video was the best of both worlds. 1 Preparing for IELTS and 2. Polishing on Pat tense, of course. Thank You Emma

[@gainforge]

Thank You, Emma! I know for sure - you are my teacher right now! Go ahead and do not stop. If you still did not see the movie -" My fair Lady... You have to do it before your next lesson. I know you will get inspiration! I am waiting for your new video

[@Delitopcu1]

Thanks a lot Emma

[@madra000]

to be honest there are a lot of lessons like this on yt, but not many have an appearance so inviting, pun or not intended.

[@ducphan8638]

Love MM english! Every!

[@mariamoutsidou3400]

Dear Emma first of all thanks your quize for me is valuable in order to understand better past tenses. I asked you for these in TLP also 😉 I made the quize with only two errors! I have 2 questions🙋 because it confuses me by the rules that I have already know. 1. The train wasn't running. Luckily I had driven to work. (Why it is used p. p. Had driven and not simple past? 2.The evening news from yesterday had warned of storms and wild weather but the warning hadn't stopped people from driving in the storm. (I put didn't stop people because this action comes after... So why? Probably because we put between the two clauseas (but)such as when we put (and) ?

[@nacciomart4586]

Hi Emma, how are you? I have four different answers from yours, but I can't say I'm wrong. As you said, in some of them there is more than one possible answer. I really enjoy your lessons Emma. Yesterday, when I was driving to work, a big truck got stuck on the middle of the road. There were many people trying to help move the truck to the side of the road, but that truck was too heavy and no one could move it. A young woman had been yelling at the trucker the entire time because she had a date, she had been waiting for this date for a long time and then out of nowhere she got caught up in this truck situation. An old woman had been trying to calm her down for a few minutes but she seemed desperate. Another person, an elderly man, tried to return from the road and collided with another car. The owner of the crashed car was a big muscular man who got out of his car to see what happened. I tought the big man was going to punch the old man in the face, but insted he started to calm down everyone down. By this time, the trucker had already collided with a hight voltage pole. All this time I had been watching the escene. I was petrified just to see how people could lose their cool so easily. But then, tha big muscular man headed to the place where the trailer had been stuck the entire time and offered to help get the truck out. Apparently he had been working for a truck company some time ago and the trucker turned out to be a rookie. So I got out of my car ( by then, I had already called my boss) and tried to imitated the big muscular man and started to calm the people down and offered to help get the truck out by directing the driver, the big man. And then the police, the fighterfighters and ambulances began to arrived, somebody had called them. A not so big problem had turned into a great show. The End. Thank you Emma.

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Excellent Naccio! Wow, what an action-packed story. Thank you for sharing.

[@anjalibajpai5056]

So here is some past tense sentences : Yesterday, I was working at my room when my nephew banged the door, and I was on call to unable to stop him. I had been working for 9 hours then I had nodded off for a while. By the time I woke up, it was dinner time and my family were having dinner. Tell me please if I'm wrong. Thank You love your lessons

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Great work, very close! I'd like to help you however with just a few simple fixes: Yesterday, I was working IN my room when my nephew WAS BANGING ON the door. I was on A call AND unable to stop him.

[@anjalibajpai5056]

@@mmmEnglish_Emma thank you so much for correcting me. You are a great person ❤️

[@akiradora3271]

To me perfect tense is the most trickiest one cuz sometimes I don't get it. Please correct my mistakes if I'm wrong. (My examples) 1.I had already eaten dinner when my mom arrived. 2.I have just watched Emma's lesson. 3.I have been working out since lockdown had started.

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Great job!

[@shreya.psonali.p967]

Teacher askes: how to spell queen Everyone: q-u-e-e-n Me: E-m-m-a m-a-m

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

😂

[@Miya-ox7ce]

I'm learn your teach from Iran and I get my English Exam Excellent by your video...tnx Miss

[@ersinyenilmez9772]

I THINK YOU ARE A VERY GOOD TEACHER ON A GLOBAL SCALE.

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Wonderful to hear Ersin. Glad to have you here.

[@kentafujii8941]

Two years ago, when the Rugby World Cup was being held in Japan, I went to watch the semifinal match with my friend. We were so excited because we really had wanted to watch it live. We had been waiting for a long time until it came true. The match was England vs New Zealand. Unfortunately, the Australian national team "Wallabies" already left the tournament because they had been beaten by England a week before. I really enjoyed the semifinal match. But at the same time, I wish I could have seen a match Wallabies vs All Blacks. Maybe next time!

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Brilliant! Well done!

[@AngelMar170]

Emma your awesome!! Keep your chin up and the good work!! Kisses from Greece❤️

[@sahadathossain9028]

Hi Emma That's why I love the way yur teaching. Yu r best English teacher on this planet. Love yu from BD

[@nwayenwayewin3923]

Thank you teacher Emma,very useful.

[@silviomartins6540]

Emma, although I can get very distracted by your charms and looks, I do pay attention to your teachings, so, If I may, I'd like to summarize the verb tenses: there're three main tenses, past, present and future. Each one can be of four different modes: simple, perfect (i.e. complete), continous or perfec continous. Therefore there're twelve tenses overall. We use "do" as the auxiliary verb for the simple mode, "have" for the perfect mode, "be" for the continious mode, plus "will" to indicate the future. It's almost mathematical. Let's say I want to use the future perfect continious tense (picked a particularly fifficult one, I guess). I can say: by the end of this month I will have been learning english from the best of the best of all teachers, i. e. Emma, for more than a year! By the way, have I said thank you yet? I'm sure I have, but in any case, thanks again, you're, well you know... simply the best! Keep up the great work! All my love ... 😘😍

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Great work Silvio! Glad these lessons are helpful for you.

[@zeynepalkr5875]

My favorite part was the round 4. It would be useful if there is an all-tenses mixed exercise, not just past tenses. Thank you!

[@mariacebrecos303]

I like it this way. Step by step.

[@ionelaandreea2476]

I think we need this kind of quiz for present and future tenses. Thanks a lot for this awesome 🌟 lesson!

[@anarghakk7979]

This quiz was so interesting . The round 4 was little bit hard for me. I think if I go through the grammer one more ,I could also answer these questions.

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

You can do it!

[@azmbazlurrahmanzahed2824]

Your teaching system is very excellent. I learn it with rapt attention.

[@bsyadav5776]

Practice of questions is so effective that I can't stop my replies.

[@yliasabas6689]

It had been passed two years when I finally found that i can say in English couple of words and i was amazed of what I heard

[@reasias-louistabrina3920]

So, excited to watch this.

[@parsazinaly1859]

iam from IRAN and i hopefully answered all of them correctly because of ur helpful lessons tnx a lot...

[@claiword_tm6175]

For me the past perfect is definitly the most challenging one i mean i can easily use it while writting or talking but not in exercices where they ask us to put the verb on the correct form

[@eduardoferrer3514]

More practice with teacher emma, i love you so much you are the best teacher ever

[@Countess.2008]

I kinda got stuck in the Past Perfect Simple Tense.....

[@i8ei111]

Not you only

[@abdullahtrd1025]

Best of luck 👍 I miss you and your lectures because I had exams 💕❤️💕❤️

[@muhammedalymamazhanov4129]

Actually for review i watched this video . Finally I learned more than I supposed . Thanks!!!

[@aparecidoferreiravais321]

Hello Emma it's good to see you. I was waiting for your video It's very important to me. I've improved my English with you a lot Thank you very much have a great day my dear teacher 😉🇧🇷 Take care

[@sosi4347]

Last week , I had been doing my homework when I realized that my mom had told me to wash the dishes and while I was washing the dishes the telephone rang . This is my small paragraph which has the four tenses , I know it is a little bit complicated but I wish it is all correct if I have any mistakes please tell me mrs. Emma Love you very much 😘❤

[@பொதுஆன்மிகம்]

Your videos are very useful for us to improve our language.Everyday we have been watching your lessons. Thanks

[@mudhiralnaib3279]

I follow all your videos in English, they are as nice as your's smiling. Best wishes.

[@fatemehmousavi2658]

Because of *YOU* and ur precious lessons.... I could pass all of the tences and I knew them. Thank u so mmmmuuuch love u love u😭🥺😍😍✨✨✨✨✨✨❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@amorabiperez2246]

The most wonderful person on KZbin ever🇩🇪🟢🟡🟠

[@sarahpierre-louis7566]

Hello Emma ! For me, the more challenging tense, among these four past tenses, is the past perfect continuous.

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

The *most* challenging tense ✔

[@shinithshinith891]

Very difficult narrative tense all together mam. But I am trying to exercise. Thank you very much.💓

[@mirwali9080]

In fact u have more experience in English language keep it up dear teacher

[@maximebonnaud]

Thank you for this video! 9:55 why not "it was raining" ? Does the "had been" imply that the morning ended ?

[@JK-bj4ni]

Wow, that was so useful for me. But I had not the problems with one grammar rule but with the complex situation in the end. All Past rules in one Example I am overloaded. I struggle and I was confusing when the next sentence began with a new "past-time". But thanks a lot because this really what I need. Competition and not a boring grammar lesson. 👍🏻

[@mariasorayacuestamoreno420]

Emma, you are such a great teacher. I loved all your videos and they cater for all abilities. Thanks a lot xx

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

Thank you for your kind words Maria 😘

[@maricarmenpozo1742]

The best moment in the week is when i see your lesson. Thanks teacher emma kiss

[@mmmEnglish_Emma]

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[@gourbilleauluc305]

I were falling in love english with Emma but i have been struglling with past tenses.....

[@nasababouomar6768]

It's very useful 👍🌸

[@pawemarcych8515]

Two days ago it was a normal spring day when I left my flat and was heading for a supermarket for doing shopings. As usual I was going outside without wearing a muzzle. I had done shopping at the supermarket and headed for my place of living. On my way home I noticed a police car being parked by the street. I had realized they were waiting for me in order to fine me. I hadn't erred, their car came on my side of the pavement. Out of the car came out 2 policemen a woman-sergeant and a man-private. They asked me why I didn't obey the need of wearing a mask calld by the local people a muzzle. Our dialog was very interesting but for my benefit. I had told them I had no time for a further unproductive discussion and that they did not obey a constitiution. A man was my former student. I reminded him that I him to some degree knew from the school times. He affirmed but they nevertheless wanted to fine me. Then I showed them a certificate from a doctor that I was exempted from wearing a muzzle. I saw they were not pleased that they coudn't fine me.

[@sharfaddinbaraka9704]

Thank you mmm😘🙏.It’s really useful and best lesson for learning grammar.👍

[@mgbgb8739]

Thanks, Emma for this Interesting, helpful, joyful, and the best of all challenges we had ever experienced, so keep it up and stip by stip until we continue the trip ...

[@yonathanlevi7361]

This video is so important! Thank you so much Emma

[@BlueRoad_Vietnguyen]

Thanks for Teaching English Grammar 👌

[@ibomchasingh203]

It's very interesting quiz. Emma you are my favourite teacher.

[@moustafamarei5027]

Definitely, the trickest tense is the past perfect continuous. I find it is very hard to use it here in Australia with my OZ friends.

[@alsishayarin1096]

Very nice ma'am....I have been improving every day in English communication

[@johndirik9720]

Really it was nice practicing with you beloved Emma