Time markers (маркеры времени) — это наречия, которые указывают на конкретное время глагола и могут стать для тебя отличной подсказкой. Слова в списке ниже сигнализируют, что нужно использовать Past Simple.
yesterday
the other day
last: last week, last month, last year, last Monday, last summer etc.
when (he was 10)
... ago: 2 days ago, 3 months ago, many years ago
in (c указанием года): in 1990, in 1968 etc.
Примеры употребления маркеров времени из журнала The New Yorker:
Five years ago, the price of milk fell precipitously, accelerating the long unravelling of rural Wisconsin.
Last year, I took more than a hundred flights, travelling to twenty-three countries on four continents.
The other day, as I spoke to the chef Michelle Williams by phone, she paused to explain a faint beeping. "Oh, sorry, that's a timer," she said cheerfully.
When the composer was in his teens, he fell into the eccentric orbit of Eric Satie, who had a great influence on his early style.
Matthiessen arrived in 1964, and described the island as one of the last Alaska Native settlements where aboriginal culture resisted the "iron hand" of missionaries.
