How to Know Which Past Tense to Use in English

如何确定在英语中使用哪种过去时态

All Ears English Podcast

语言学习

2025-04-21

18 分钟
PDF

单集简介 ...

Take our free English-level quiz here to find out what your current English level is.  Do you love All Ears English?  Try our other podcasts here: Business English Podcast: Improve your Business English with 3 episodes per week, featuring Lindsay, Michelle, and Aubrey IELTS Energy Podcast: Learn IELTS from a former Examiner and achieve your Band 7 or higher, featuring Jessica Beck and Aubrey Carter Visit our website here or https://lnk.to/website-sn Send your English question or episode topic idea to support@allearsenglish.com In charge of hiring for your company? Go to Indeed and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast. Terms and conditions apply. Hiring? Indeed is all you need. Go to https://www.indeed.com/aee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
更多

单集文稿 ...

  • This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2394, how to know which past tense to use in English.

  • Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times.

  • Are you feeling stuck with your English?

  • We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection,

  • not perfection with your American host, Aubrey Carter.

  • The IELTS Wiz and Lindsay McMahon, the English Adventurer.

  • Coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA.

  • And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week go to allearsenglish.com forward slash subscribe.

  • When you're in a conversation with a native speaker,

  • how do you know if you should use the simple past,

  • the present perfect or the present perfect progressive?

  • Find out the details and learn when it matters and when it doesn't in today's episode.

  • Hey there, Aubrey, what have you been up to lately?

  • Oh,

  • I have been going to a lot of movies with my kids and mostly cause we bought this unlimited popcorn bucket and I want to like get my money's worth filling it every time.

  • And we watched Snow White yesterday and we all loved it,

  • which was especially surprising because it's been rated and reviewed really low.

  • So my expectations were realized, but I was surprised.

  • I loved it so much.

  • It's crazy to me that anyone reviewed it low.