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📚 Past perfect simple and past perfect continuous (multiple choice). Good luck!🍀 #quiz

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🔰Past perfect continuous 🔰الزمن الماضي التام المستمر 🔻We use the past perfect continuous to talk about actions or situations which had continued up to the past moment that we are thinking about, or shortly before it. نستخدم الزمن الماضي التام المستمر للحديث عن المواقف التي استمرت خلال فترة من الماضي الى لحظة التفكير فيها، أو قبلها بقليل ✨At that time we had been living in the caravan for about six months. ✨When I found Emily, I could see that she had been crying. ✨I went to the doctor because I had been sleeping badly. 🔻How long? past perfect continuous, not past continuous 🔻استخدم صيغة التام المستمر لا المستمر للتعبير عن مدة الحدث We use a past perfect continuous, not a past continuous, to say how long something had been happening up to a past moment. نستخدم الزمن الماضي التام المستمر، و ليس الماضي المستمر، للتعبير حتى مدة حدوث فعل حتى لحظة محددة في الماضي. 🔹We’d been walking since sunrise, and we were hungry. (Not We were walking since sunrise ...)✘ ◽️When she arrived, she had been travelling for twenty hours. (Not ... she was travelling ...)✘ 🔻Continuous and simple: differences 🔻الفرق بين صيغة المستمر و البسيط Continuous forms are mostly used to talk about more temporary actions and situations. When we talk about longer-lasting or permanent situations, we prefer simple forms. تُستخدم صيغ الاستمرار غالباً للحديث عن مواقف و أحداث مؤقتة. عندما يكون الحدث أطول أو دائم فيُفضل إستخدام صيغ البسيط. قارن: 🤔Compare: 🔹My legs were stiff because I had been standing still for a long time. ◽️The tree that blew down had stood there for 300 years. ➖Continuous forms generally emphasise the continuation of an activity; we use simple tenses to emphasise the idea of completion. تُستخدم صيغ الاستمرار عموماً للتأكيد على إستمرارية الحدث؛ بينما تُستخدم أزمنة البسيط للتأكيد على فكرة اكتماله. 🤔Compare: 🔹I had been reading science fiction, and my mind was full of strange images. ◽️I had read all my magazines, and was beginning to get bored. ➖Some verbs are not normally used in continuous forms, even if the meaning is one for which a continuous form would be more suitable. بعض الأفعال تكون عادةً لا تُستخدم في صيغة المستمر، حتى لو المعنى كان أكثر ملاءمة. ✨I hadn't known her for very long when we got married. (Not I hadn’t been knowing her ...)✘ @EnglishGrammarSecrets

🔰Past perfect simple: advanced points الماضي التام البسيط: استخدامات متقدمة 1️⃣ Past perfect or simple past with after, as soon as, etc 🔻We can use time conjunctions (e.g. after, as soon as, when, once) to talk about two actions or events that happened one after the other. Usually the past perfect is not necessary in these cases, because we are not 'going back' from the time that we are mainly talking about, but simply moving forward from one event to the next. 🔻يمكننا استخدام أدوات العطف الزمنية (على سبيل المثال after ، as soon as ، when ، once) للحديث عن حدثين حدثا واحدًا تلو الآخر. عادة ما يكون الماضي التام ليس ضروريًا في هذه الحالات ، لأننا لا "نعود" من الوقت الذي نتحدث عنه بشكل أساسي ، و لكن ببساطة نتحرك للأمام من حدث إلى آخر. 🔹After it got dark, we came back inside. 🔹As soon as Megan arrived, we sat down to eat. 🔹Once it stopped raining, we started the game again. 🔻However, we can use the past perfect with after, as soon as, etc to emphasise that the first action is separate, independent of the second, completed before the second started. 🔻و مع ذلك ، يمكننا استخدام الماضي التام مع after ، as soon as ، وما إلى ذلك للتأكيد على أن الحدث الأول منفصل ، مستقل عن الحدث الثاني ، و مكتمل قبل بدء الحدث الثاني. 🔹She didn't feel the same after her dog had died. 🔹As soon as he had finished his exams, he went to Paris for a month. 🔻This use of the past perfect is especially common with WHEN. (When has several meanings, so we often have to show the exact time relations by the verb form.) 🔻هذا الاستخدام للماضي التام شائع بشكل خاص مع WHEN. (عندما يكون لها معاني عديدة ،غالبًا ما يتعين علينا إظهار ارتباطات الزمن الدقيقة بصيغة الفعل). قارن: 🤔Compare: 🔹When I had opened the windows, I sat down and had a cup of tea. (Not When I opened the windows, I sat down ...: the first action was quite separate from the second.) ◽️When I opened the window, the cat jumped out. (More natural than When I had opened the window, ...: one action caused the other.) 🔹When I had answered my emails, I did some gardening. ◽️When I wrote to her, she came at once. 2️⃣ Unrealised hopes and wishes; things that did not happen 🔻The past perfect can be used to express an unrealised hope, wish, etc. Had is usually stressed in this case. 🔻الزمن الماضي التام يمكن استخدامه للتعبير عن أماني و أمنيات غير محققة ..الخ. في هذا حالة يكون الفعل had مشدد عند النطق. 🔹I HAD hoped we would leave tomorrow, but it won't be possible. 🔹He HAD intended to make a cake, but he ran out of time. 3️⃣ Past perfect with It was the first/second ... that ... 🔻We generally use a past perfect after it was the first/second ... that ... and similar structures (Same with Present perfect. See above👆🏻) 🔻يستخدم هذا الزمن مع عبارات "كانت المرة الأولى/الثانية التي ... و صيغ مماثلة تماماً كما في الزمن المضارع التام (راجع الدرس أعلاه👆🏻) 🔹It was the first time that I had heard her sing. 🔹It was the fifth time she had asked the same question. 🔹It was only the second opera I had seen in my life. @EnglishGrammarSecrets

🔰 The Past Perfect Simple tense 🔰الزمن الماضي التام البسيط 1⃣ Basic information: The basic meaning of the past perfect is ‘earlier past'. A common use is to ‘go back’ for a moment when we are already talking about the past, to make it clear that something…