PAST TENSES

VERB TENSES

PAST TIMES

Let's begin!

1. Past simple

INDEx

2. Past continuous

3. Past perfect simple

4. Past perfect continuous

past simple

Past simple is used to talk about actions or events that happened and were completed in the past.

Let's see some examples

I ate an appleYou sang a song He / She / It played football We wrote a letter You danced last night They looked at the sky

If we are facing an irregular verb, we use the form in the second column.

Past continuous

We use past continuous in English to express an action or event that was happening at a specific time in the past.

LET'S SEE SOME EXAMPLES

I was drinking water You were drawing on a paper He / She / It was lying in bed We were sleeping a lot You were having a shower They were running very fast

PAST PERFECT TENSES

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

We use past perfect simple to talk about an action that happened before another action in the past.

We use the past perfect continuous to talk about an action or situation that started in the past and continued up until another time in the past

vs

I had been waiting for hours before the bus finally arrived

I had been waiting for hours before the bus finally arrived

I had already eaten when you arrived

Any questions?