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In this episode we will look at ways to talk about something that has happened in the past.

Plus we will look at ways to form compound and complex sentences.

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Study Node - Recounting the Past:

Recounting a story, incident or event is to write or talk about something, which has happened in the past.

It may be an event from your life (personal recount), a narrative, biography, diary entry or another form of description.

When describing events which have already occurred in the past, it is necessary to use past tense verbs and time expressions/words which order past events or refer to points of time in the past.

 

IELTS Study Tips:

When recounting in the past whether it writing a biography or describing a sequence of events for example, it is important to establish clearly the relationship between different past actions.

The past perfect focuses on a specific past time first and then refers back to an action, event or situation that occurred before that time.