វេយ្យាករណ៍ោ: Past Perfect Simple

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            Yesterday Miss. Sophea​​ went to join a friend’s birthday. Her friend, Mr. Chandara , wanted to meet her at the birthday party in that they had not met each other for a few months. Unfortunately, when Mr. Chandara got there, Miss. Sophea had left for home already.  So they both didn’t meet.

Use Past Simple or Past Continuous Tense-Khmer explanation?

                                                                              
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In this lesson, you are assumed that you have known the forms of the two tenses.

Read this text to get to know more about the two tenses.

ក្នុងមេរៀននេះ ខ្ញុំគិតថាអ្នកបានចេះទម្រង់របស់កាលទាំងពីរ។

អានអត្ថបទនេះ ដើម្បីដឹងបន្ថែមអំពីកាលទាំងពីរ។

Past continuous tense-khmer explanation

អតីតកាលកំពុងធ្វើ                                     

                                                                                              
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            Yesterday, Vuthy taught his part –time students as usual. He started at 5 and finished at 7 pm.  Thirty minutes later, when he was explaining the lesson to the students, one of his friends, Eng Tith, called to invite him to eat something. Vuthy wanted to go, but he couldn’t because he was trying to finish his lesson. However, he promised to go after class.

            The underlined sentences are called the past continuous tense.