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一、内容纲要
二、内容简述
（一）构成方式
该时态下，动词的形式是：was/were或did。
（二）基本用法
1、表过去发生的事情，如：
I was in the park yesterday afternoon.
昨天下午我在公园。
He arrived in Shanghai ten minutes ago.
他十分钟前到上海。
They went for an outing last Saturday.
他们上周六去郊游了。
2、表过去习惯或经常做某事，此时常与频率副词连用，如：
We often swam in the river in summer in our childhood.
我们小时候到了夏天常在河里游泳。
She never had any meat when she was young.
她小时候从不吃肉。
（三）标志词
常见的有：
1、yesterday系列，如yesterday、yesterday morning / afternoon / evening、the day before yesterday：
Yesterday I bought a novel at the store around the corner.
昨天我在街角的店里买了本小说。
Jack visited his grandparents the day before yesterday.
杰克前天看望了他的爷爷奶奶。
2）last 单数时间单位，如last week / month / year：
I went to Beijing on business last month.
上个月我去北京出差了。
They made a cake for her last Sunday.
上周日他们给她做了个蛋糕。
3）时间段 ago，如：
They got married ten years ago.
他们十年前结的婚。
My younger brother called me five minutes ago.
我弟弟五分钟前给我打了电话。
4）时间段 ago，如：
They got married ten years ago.
他们十年前结的婚。
My younger brother called me five minutes ago.
我弟弟五分钟前给我打了电话。
5）in 过去年份、年代、世纪等，如：
There was only one airport in the city in the 1960s.
二十世纪六十年代这个城市只有一个机场。
She was born in 2002.
她生于2002年。
6）the other 单数时间单位，表示“前几个...”，如：
His mother came to see him the other day.
他妈妈前几天来看他了。
I ran into an old friend of mine in the street the other week.
前几周我在街上碰到我的一个老朋友了。
（四）动词的过去式
1、直接 ed，如：worked, played。
2、 d，如：lived, noted。
3、以“辅音字母 y”结尾，改y为i，再 ed，如：cried, studied。
4、以重读闭音节结尾，双写最后一个辅音字母，再 ed，如：stopped, patted。
5、不规则，如：sleep - slept, take - took。
（五）句型变化
原句：We met him at the station yesterday.
否定句：We did not meet him at the station yesterday.
一般疑问句及其回答：
- Did you meet him at the station yesterday?
- Yes, we did.
- No, we didn't.
划线部分提问：
Who/Whom did you meet at the station yesterday?
（六）特殊情况
1、英语中“this 单数时间单位”也可以用来表示过去时间，如：
I gave him my notebook this morning.
今天上午我把我的笔记本给他了。
2、一般过去时可以用来表委婉语气，如：
Could you please give me that hammer?
请你把那个锤子给我好吗？
I might as well have the two tickets.
我还是买下这两张票吧。
3、如果要表达过去习惯做某事但现在不再如此了，多采用used to do。要注意它与be used to doing（表当前或将来习惯做某事）的区别。如：
The man used to smoke a lot.
那人过去烟瘾很重。（现在不再如此）
The man is used to smoking a lot.
那人（现在）烟瘾很重。
