Author: Manjusha Nambiar

The past perfect tense overview

The past perfect tense is used to talk about the earlier of two past events. Form: Subject + had + past participle form of the verb I had finished dinner before dad came home....

Past continuous tense overview

The past continuous tense is used to talk about actions or events that were going on around a particular point of time in the past. What were you doing at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon?...

Simple past tense overview

To say that something happened some time ago, we use the simple past tense. If you are already familiar with the three forms of the verb (base form, simple past and past participle), you...