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    This document summarizes and provides examples of different past tenses in English: 1) The past perfect tense uses "had" plus the past participle to describe actions that happened before other past actions. 2) The past continuous tense uses "was/were" plus the "-ing" form of the verb to describe actions in progress at a specific time in the past. 3) The past simple tense uses regular and irregular past forms of verbs to describe completed actions in the past.

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    This document summarizes and provides examples of different past tenses in English: 1) The past perfect tense uses "had" plus the past participle to describe actions that happened before other past actions. 2) The past continuous tense uses "was/were" plus the "-ing" form of the verb to describe actions in progress at a specific time in the past. 3) The past simple tense uses regular and irregular past forms of verbs to describe completed actions in the past.

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    PAST TENSES

    Past Perfect
    HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE

    ACTIONS that happened BEFORE another past action

    When I got home, he had just finished his homework.


    AFFIRMATIVE: SUBJECT + HAD+ PAST PARTICIPLE

    She called me to let me know she hadn’t left the station.


    NEGATIVE: SUBJECT + HADN’T + PAST PARTICIPLE

    Had they read the novel before they watched the film?
    INTERROGATIVE: HAD + SUBJECT + PAST PARTICIPLE
    Past Continuous
    WAS/WERE + VERB -ING

    ACTIONS IN PROGRESS at a specific point in the past

    While we were playing video games, it started to rain.


    AFFIRMATIVE: SUBJECT + WAS / WERE + VERB -ING

    When he got home, she wasn’t sleeping; she was cooking dinner.
    NEGATIVE: SUBJECT + WASN’T / WEREN’T + VERB -ING

    Were you watching TV when I called you?


    INTERROGATIVE: WAS / WERE + SUBJECT + VERB -ING
    PAST SIMPLE

    COMPLETED ACTIONS in the past

    Yesterday they played tennis.


    AFFIRMATIVE: REGULAR VERBS + ED
    Last week we went to the park.
    AFFIRMATIVE: IRREGULAR VERBS: 2° COLUMN OF THE VERB
    LIST
    She didn’t go to school two days ago.
    NEGATIVE: SUBJECT + DIDN’T + INFINITIVE VERB
    Did you study for the maths exam?
    INTERROGATIVE: DID + SUBJECT + INFINITIVE VERB
    PAST SIMPLE

    COMPLETED ACTIONS in the past

    Past Continuous
    WAS/WERE + VERB -ING

    ACTIONS IN PROGRESS at a specific point in the past

    Past Perfect
    HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE
    ACTIONS that happened BEFORE another past action
    USED TO

    PAST HABITS or STATES that are no longer true in the present

    He used to have long hair, but nowadays he always cuts it short.


    AFFIRMATIVE: SUBJECT + USED TO + infinitive verb

    She didn't use to like chocolate, but she does now.


    NEGATIVE: SUBJECT + DIDN’T + USE TO + infinitive verb

    Did they use to play an instrument? Did she use to speak French?
    INTERROGATIVE: DID + SUBJECT + USE TO + infinitive verb ?
    WOULD + INFINITIVE VERB

    PAST HABITS or SITUATIONS that make us feel nostalgic.

    When we were kids, my family and I would go to the beach every summer.
    My grandma would read bedtime stories to us.

    We avoid using “would” with state verbs or for interrogative and negative
    sentences.
    WOULD + INFINITIVE VERB

    PAST HABITS or SITUATIONS that were repeated many times.

    I used to live in Spain, but I moved back to England last year.

    Can we use “would” instead of “used to”?


    No, because 'living in Spain' wasn't repeated again and again. It's simply a
    situation in the past.

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