Narrative Tenses in English

In this English grammar lesson, you will learn about narrative tenses or the verbs we use when we tell or narrate a story: the past simple, the past continuous, the past perfect and the past perfect continuous. A must-see for all those taking exams in English, such as IELTS, and Cambridge Advanced, FCE or PET.
00:00 Intro
00:23 Which tenses are narrative tenses?
00:37 An example story using these tenses
01:43 the past simple
02:41 the past continuous
03:18 form of the past continuous
03:52 past simple and past continuous used together
04:34 past simple and paqst perfect used together
05:16 past perfect form
05:51 past perfect continuous
06:43 form of the past perfect continuous
06:59 write a sentence using a combination of narrative tenses in the comment section
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I studied past tenses a year ago, but I had been struggling to understand them until I found your KZbin video explaining narrative tenses. You clarified this topic so well that I wish I could have seen this video before. I tried to formulate a sentence with past continuous, but nothing came to my mind haha Thanks for putting out this video :)

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Hello teacher! Thank you a lot for great lesson ❤❤❤ Here is my example. I worked as a medical statistician before my daughter was born. I had been working there for 2 years. Before I left my work place I had taught my co-worker how to do the daily reports. While I was teaching my co-worker I was pregnant for my baby. After she had learned all about how to do the daily reports, I left my work place for a while.

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Hi Durdonakhon, Well done! Great sentences! Here is my feedback: Here is my example. I worked as a medical statistician before my daughter was born. I had been working there for 2 years. Before I left my work place I had taught my co-worker how to do the daily reports. While I was teaching my co-worker I was pregnant for WITH baby. After she had learned all about how to do the daily reports, I left my work place for a while. Hope that helps! 🙏

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"I had been cooking one pizza when the phone rang. After that I have watched a film where the actor was eating in a restaurant." Thaks for your lessons.

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Hi Angel, Great sentences, well done! I would just prefer, "I was cooking a pizza when the phone rang." as this is when one action is in progress and is interrupted by another. This is when we use the past continuous for the action in progress and the past simple for the short completed action, the phone ringing. Then you say, "After that I have watched a film.... " this is the present perfect and as the action is a completed action in the past I think it would be better to use the past simple here. Tenses are difficult but practice makes perfect! Keep up the good work! 👍

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Hi Fazil, what a wonderful piece of writing. First of all, your English is EXCELLENT! I am very impressed. I also really appreciate your support and positive comments about my lessons. So thank you very much 🙏🏼. Now for your writing using narrative tenses. It was very well written but to make it even more like a native English speaker, I have some small suggestions for you. Firstly, you say “I had never..”. Whereas it would be better to say, “I never had a chance to have a good English teacher like YOU. (Not yours - yours is a possessive pronoun, it replaces a noun). Then you say, “when I had been a student at school.” It would be better to say “when I was a student.” You use the past simple for a completed action in the past. Finally, you say “since I had been ...”. Whereas it would be better to say “since I have been... “ this is the present perfect tense and is used when the verb still has a result in the present. I hope these comments help. Keep up the good work and thanks again 🙏🏼

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My example: When I saw Olivia, she was trying to enter the chinese restaurant. At the time I had reached her, she smiled at me and invited me to eat some noodles. We talked for a long amount of time until the clock marked the 10 o clock. We had been talking since that casual meeting.

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It had been really cold outside, so I wore a coat when I was taking my dog out.

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I was doing my english homework when this video appeared suddenly. I had seen many videos before you showed me real examples of narrative tenses Everyone had thought that I had forgotten my duties but I decided to finish early. As soon as I had this information, I can develop new knowledges. I was thinking of travelling before the covid 19 arrived. While We were feeling worried about Covid 19 in all of countries, many animals started to leave free.

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Yesterday, while I was putting my cellphone to charge, the light went out. My mom started to shout because she had been working all day and she didn't save her work.

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Hi Ximena, Great sentence! You use the tenses correctly, so well done! However, I would just change one thing: Yesterday, while I was CHARGING my cellphone, the light went out. My mom started to shout because she had been working all day and she didn't save her work. Hope that helps! 😊

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My parents watched the movie when I had been eating my breakfast.

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Hello dear teacher . Firstly I am appreciated about the video and again I mesmerized by English lesson thanks to you. Because you did teach very clearly. Thank you for the video and I want to give two examples. First example : I was studying the Math when the phone rang. Second example: I had been reading a book before I went to the bed.

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Hi Gurkan, thank you for the positive feedback. As for your two sentences, well done! They are fantastic! Only two tiny things, you would say, "I was studying maths when the phone rang." and for the second one: " I had been reading a book before I went to bed." No "the." Well done! Keep it up! 🙏

[@Nightmare-xl3on]

@@oxfordenglishnow Pleasure is mine teacher and thanks for your advices.

[@CamiMaverick]

I was was watching this video and I found it very interesting. Yesterday I didn't have time to see it in detail. I hadn't done it until today because I was sick. I've been working on my english.

[@oxfordenglishnow]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@BelegornHK]

I had been feeling really down for not being able to understood narrative tenses in my English lessons, no matter what I did, I was trapping myself into believing I had no way out, until I found this video and I had reviewed a lot of information still I had much to learn, hopefully I will get better in time.

[@oxfordenglishnow]

Yes, don’t lose your motivation to learn. You will get there!

[@huongquynh2275]

Thanks very much your lesson help me for my exam.

[@oxfordenglishnow]

Glad to hear that

[@studywithbrain988]

I was studying English grammar when i saw this KZbin channel.

[@oxfordenglishnow]

Great! Glad you found me!

[@msh8769]

We were playing dominos when our science teacher interrupted and gave us a complex task. Afterwards, we *DISCUSSED THE* problem for more than an hour before we found the right solution. Thank you for clear explanation!

[@oxfordenglishnow]

Hi M!SH*, Great sentence, well done! Just one little thing missing. We were playing dominos when our science teacher interrupted and gave us a complex task. Afterwards, we DISCUSSED THE problem for more than an hour before we found the right solution. You need to use the past simple as it is a completed action in the past. Hope that helps! 🙏

[@msh8769]

@@oxfordenglishnow Ok, I get it Thank's for feedback!

[@sarabuitrago1416]

Your lesssons hepl me alot

[@oxfordenglishnow]

So pleased to hear that! 🙏

[@cassandrawong3816]

I was studying for my exam and struggled on narrative tenses until I watched this helpful video

[@oxfordenglishnow]

Glad it helped!

[@trungnghiao4315]

Thank you so much.

[@oxfordenglishnow]

My pleasure 😇

[@Ichsprechedeutsch546]

I was studying for my English exam when I saw this great video.

[@oxfordenglishnow]

Glad it was helpful!