Summary of Past Tenses in English 📚🕰️
We have just learned about 4 past tenses in English.
- Simple Past ⏳
- Past Continuous 🔄
- Past Perfect ✅
- Past Perfect Continuous ⏳🔄
Each tense has its own specific usage, structure, and meaning. Understanding these differences will help you express past events more clearly.
1. Simple Past Tense ⏳
Usage:
- Actions that happened at a specific point in the past.
- Completed actions (we know the event started and finished in the past).
Structure:
For regular/main verbs:
- Affirmative: Subject + verb (in the past form)
- Negative: …