AEE 2394: How to Know Which Past Tense to Use in English

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an all-ears English podcast, episode 2394. How to know which past tense to use in English.
0:10.0	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by
0:23.0	focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS
0:30.2	Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado USA and to get your transcripts delivered
0:42.4	by email every week go to all earsenglish.com forward slash subscribe.
0:52.7	When you're in a conversation with a native speaker, how do you know if you should use the simple past, the present perfect, or the present perfect progressive?
1:01.2	Find out the details and learn when it matters and when it doesn't in today's episode.
1:16.5	Are you feeling stuck at your English level?
1:19.4	Are you sure what your real English level is?
1:25.9	If you take our free quiz, we'll tell you what level you're stuck at and how to reach your next English milestone.
1:30.4	Go to allersenglish.com slash fluency score now.
1:33.5	That's fluency score, one word.
1:37.2	Alleyersenglish.com slash fluency score.
1:42.4	Hey there, Aubrey.
1:43.9	What have you been up to lately? Oh, I have been going to a lot of movies with my kids.
1:48.0	Yeah. And mostly because we bought this unlimited popcorn bucket and I want to like get my money's worth filling it every time.
1:55.0	And we watched Snow White yesterday and we all loved it, which was especially surprising because it's been rated and
2:02.8	reviewed really low. So my expectations were really, but I was surprised. I loved it so much.
2:08.5	It's crazy to me that anyone reviewed it low. So then I kind of dove into like why people are
2:14.0	and I really disagree with everything they're saying about the movie. So everybody out there listening, go check it out and decide for yourself. I think it's a fantastic
2:21.8	film that really modernized the story of Snow White and removed a lot of what was problematic
2:27.5	about the original version. So check it out. I loved it. All right. All right. Excellent. Well,
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