【写作技巧】用过去时态写作

就像在 【写作技巧】叙事作文的5W+1H原则  一文中提到的，叙事作文是一种复述过去的一段经历或一次事件的写作形式。因此，在写叙事作文时，过去时态是最为常见的时态。

什么是过去时态？

总的来说，过去时是用来谈论在过去某一特定时间发生和结束的事情的。在过去时中，动词要变形成过去形态。为了将规则动词改写成过去式形式，通常在动词后加“ed”。

play – played

cook – cooked

rain – rained

wait – waited

有一些在拼写上略有变化的动词。我们称它们为不规则动词，查看不规则动词：[不规则动词单词表]

以下使用规则动词的过去式形式的句子：

Last night I played my guitar hero all night.

昨晚，我弹了一整夜的吉他。

It rained yesterday.

昨晚下雨了。

While we were in sleep, Angela got up early in the morning and went to see the sunrise.

当我们正在睡梦中时，Angela早早的起床，出去看了日出。

Matt took the course last year.

Matt去年上过这门课了。

When we finally arrived in Bangkok at 4am this morning, we were exhausted.

凌晨4点，我们终于到达了曼谷，我们早已精疲力尽。

否定句的过去时

一般现在时don’t和doesn’t，过去时都变成为didn’t。 didn’t (did not)即否定句中的过去式形式。这只限于英语中的实义动词。（To be和情态动词，如can，是特例）。主动词（例如例句中的like）是用原形的。助动词Didn’t是用来表示句子是否定的，而且是过去时。

例句：

现在时：I don’t like beans.

过去式：I didn’t like beans.

一般现在时的Isn’t/am not/aren’t变成了wasn’t and weren’t.

例句：

现在时：I am not a teacher.

过去式：I wasn’t a teacher.

一般现在时的can’t,变成了couldn’t.

例句：

现在时：I can’t go.

过去式:  I couldn’t go.

练习一下吧！请将下列句子改写成过去式形式：

We embrace challenges and rarely take no for an answer. When we find ourselves stuck, we try to keep a positive attitude. We believe there is a creative way around almost any obstacle. We don’t give up easily.

Boys and girls come and go like moths among the whisperings.

Do you understand?

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答案：

We embraced challenges and rarely took no for an answer. When we found ourselves stuck, we tried to keep a positive attitude. We believed there was a creative way around almost any obstacle. We didn’t give up easily.

Boys and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings.

Did you understand?