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Firstly, for most new teachers knowing the grammar is one of the most fear inspiring parts of the job. With all tenses you have to know what it looks like. The past simple tense is the tense you use with actions that are finished in the past. You often add words like 'ago' or 'last' (night, week, month, year) to show when the action happened. A typical context for this tense is a story about last weekend or your holiday: Last summer, I went to Tbilisi with my family.
With the past continuous tense you can speak about a particular moment in the past. All continuous tenses include the verb 'to be' in the past ( was or were)
I/he/she/it was singing
You/we/they were singing
You use the past perfect tense for an action that happened in the past before something else that happened in the past.
When you saw me I had just lost my lucky pen.
So, you put the action that happened first in the past perfect (I had lost my lucky pen) and the thing that happened later in the past simple (you saw me).
LIke the past perfect simple, you use the past perfect continuous tense when two actions are in the pastand one happaned before the other. However,this time you want to emphasise the duration of the action that happened first.
I had been shopping for houres when I decided to stop for luch. In this example,the two actions are 'had been shopping' and 'decided'. The action that happened first and seemed to take a long time is in the past perfect continuous and the action that followed is in the past simple.
