The past simple verb form‎ is used to talk about events in the past; it’s often used to tell a story. He walked into the room and looked around. There was a knock on the door. He opened it and saw… I woke up. I got out of bed. I […]

The past perfect simple is used to talk about events which happened in the past before another event also in the past. It is mainly used thus: I had walked for about twenty minutes before I realized I’d left my wallet behind. It’s usually followed by the past simple‏‎. In […]

The Past Perfect Continuous (PPC) is used to talk about a continuous event in the past which happened before another event to which it was closely related. In this diagram, the wiggly line is the PPC and the cross is a closely related second event which “stops” the continuous event.

A Past Participle is a verb form which indicates a past or completed action or time. If you see some, you’ll recognize them: walked frozen done watched typed cleaned Quite often you’ll hear people talking about the past participle as the -ed Form. This is because with regular verbs that’s […]

The Past Continuous (also called the Past Progressive) is used in several different ways: interrupted actions in the past parallel actions in the past It is used to reference a continuous (long-term) action in the past: Time line of the Past Continuous