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This unit gives an overview of making past tenses. Just like in present sentences there is also 4 different past tense type: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous.
Past Simple tenses we use when we know the time, ask about the time or we are sure it happened in certain time even though it is not mentioned. For example: Two days ago my mother got me new pair of socks. When did mother buy you new pair of socks? Mother bought me new pair of socks.
Some of the past verbs are irregular - if usually you add -ed in the end of a verb then irregular verbs have they own words (there is no rule for that you just need to know them). For example: buy - bought, catch - caught , put - put
Past Continuous sentences include be form in the past (was/were) + verb + ing (for example: The Sun was setting.)
Past Continuous we use for example: when we talk about interrupted past actions: I was dreaming when my alarm went off. When we talk about an action, which began before certain time and most likely continued in the present (At 10 o'clock i was still sleeping).
Past Perfect is formed: subject + had + past participle (By the end of the movie she had cried for 7 times). Past perfect is used when one action has finished before the other past action (She hated the movie as she had cried for 7 times).
Past Perfect Continuous is formed: subject + had + been + ing (Before the end of the movie she had been crying 7 times). Basically this form of past tense is used when we talk about longer action in the past that had been going on continuously up to the past moment that we are thinking about - we are not sure if it continued afterwards.
