How do we use the Past Simple Tense? We use the past simple tense to talk about an action or a situation - an event - in the past. The event can be short or long. Here are some short events with the past simple tense: The car exploded at 9.30am yesterday. She went to the door. We did not hear the telephone. Did you see that car? | past | present | future | | | | | The action is in the past. | | | Here are some long events with the past simple tense: I lived in Bangkok for
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lives become miserable as they are unable to move onto the past. Beloved by Toni Morrison takes it one step further and discusses ex-slaves attempting to recover from this traumatic past in different ways. However‚ simply than just ignoring their past‚ Beloved argues that to overcome a traumautic past we must confront the past and move towards the future. The past helps to construct our identity as seen by Denver’s obsession with the past. Denver frequently urges Sethe to tell her about her birth;
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A nation past For this assignment I have some interesting questions and some good statements to go thru. It is mainly about how a nation past has helped shaping their identity we see today. For this statement I´m starting off with just looking at Australia‚ and further on I will bring in some other countries so we can compare them together to either see the statement true or wrong. The Aboriginals is a great part of Australian history‚ but do people all over the world really know they lived in Australia
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Exploring the past is a purposeless activity All of us have little secrets which we don’t want to share with others – things which we are ashamed of‚ things which are too intimate to tell or just things which happened in the past and we don’t want to tell them because they may hurt someone or they may cause troubles to us. I have the perfect example that exploring the past sometimes may be painful. I have a friend – Lora- which is very amorous and gives all of herself for her boyfriend. But
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Eng 12B 2/25/2013 “Can a Man Forget He Is Human?” Upon reading the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell‚ I was prompted to keep a question in my head as I read it. Erich Fromm questions‚“can man forget that he is human?” or what is it to be Human. This question was undoubtedly adhered in my mind as I read the book and made me analyze the story in a big picture‚ comparing it to modern governments and pondering the deeper meaning of the text. My goal in writing this reading response is
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Certain incidents so impress us that they leave an indelible mark on our memory. I was once involved in an incident of which I shall always have vivid recollections. The incident occurred when I visited a village in India together with my parents‚ sometime during my holidays last year. Early in the morning on the day the incident occurred‚ I was talking with a few of my new friends in that village. All of a sudden‚ a boy of my age came rushing towards us to break the news that violence had
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Backstabbing “friends”‚ in my opinion‚ shouldn’t even be considered friends. They are bad influences and they often take advanatage of you. Once your back is turned‚ they become a whole different person. “Friends” that are like this is greedy and will hurt you time and time again if they are forgiven. These kinds of friends should definitely not be forgiven! I remember being in sixth grade. I had the greatest and sweetest friend around. We shared many fun moments together but‚ after entering grade
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Can you imagine being thrown from a car at 30mph? Well‚ I never thought I could until this happened to me in the summer of 2011. It was a gorgeous June afternoon‚ and summer had just begun. I had just gotten my license‚ and I couldn’t wait to go cruising’ around. I had spent the day at my friend’s house‚ and now I was on my way home. I was almost home‚ I just had to turn onto the gravel road to get to my house. While I was turning‚ I was trying to put in a mix CD I had just made‚ and trying to turn
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My grandfather Peter was a great man that would do anything for me. I live with my mom and my two sisters and unfortunately they don’t share the same interests as me. From when I was very young I was full of energy. I would want to play sports or run around all day if I could regrettably no one would supervise me except for one person my grandfather. Although I don’t live with my grandfather he has spent more time with me even more than my mother. Everyday he would drive from his house to my house
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Separate Pasts‚ Growing Up White in the Segregated South Separate Pasts is an award winning novel written by Melton A. McLaurin that delves into the 1950s era where racism was evident around each corner. McLaurin honestly explores the relationships he had with his fellow white peers as well as the African Americans during his childhood in the southern United States. This novel was a moving tale that examined the racist times that plagued our vast history. McLaurin did not understand at a young
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