2023-04-05 23:54:26
Narrative tenses — это группа временных форм в английском языке, которые используются для описания событий в прошлом, в основном, в рассказах и историях. Именно они помогают создать кинематографическую атмосферу и напряжение в рассказе, что делает его более интересным для читателей.
В своей новой статье преподаватель Аюб расскажет про эти временные формы.
So, what do you know about the narrative tenses? And why are they important in storytelling? Narrative tenses are separated into four basic tenses, they can be used in the active or passive forms.
THE SIMPLE PAST
The simple past is an action that happened in a specific point of time in the past, that action was done and finished.
I read an interesting article last week/yesterday/ a few minutes ago…
Я прочитал интересную статью на прошлой неделе/вчера/несколько минут назад...
The past simple consists of a simple rule: Subject + Past Form of the verb, and this of course depends on the type of verb; we add -ed to regular verbs and irregular verbs change the form.
The past simple requires a specific point of time in the past.
THE PAST PERFECT
I had seen this movie before anyone else saw it.
Я посмотрел этот фильм раньше, чем его увидел кто-либо другой.
In this example, there are two actions that happened in the past but they didn’t happen in the same time. In this case, the first action or even must be written in the past perfect, while the second one should be in the past simple/past continuous.
In narrative tenses, writers tend to use this tense a lot to make you live in the story, it is not an information overload, but it is a skill to attract the readers to find it more interesting to follow up with its course of actions.
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