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Easy explanations and examples about how to make the past simple (or simple past) tense in English with lots of exercises and quizzes.
- Mixed Exercise 2
Past Simple (or Simple Past) Mixed Exercise 2. Here's...
- Past Simple Exercise 1
Past Simple with 'Be' Positive and Negative Forms. Try...
- Verb Tenses
Practice your English verb tenses here - clear explanations...
- Past Perfect Simple Form
Easy explanations about the past perfect tense in English...
- Mixed Exercise 2
Learn how to form and use the past simple tense and other verb tenses with clear explanations and exercises. Download free PDFs of the tenses and grammar rules.
Easy explanations about the past perfect tense in English with lots of exercises.
The past perfect is made from the verb had and the past participle of a verb: I had finished the work. She had gone. The past perfect continuous is made from had been and the -ing form of a verb: I had been working there for a year. They had been painting the bedroom.
The past perfect tense, also pluperfect, is used for actions that took place before a certain point in the past. It is formed with had and the past participle. Learn how to conjugate and use the past perfect tense in English grammar.
Learn about the different past tense forms (past simple, past continuous and past perfect) and do the exercises to practise using them.
We use Simple Past if we give past events in the order in which they occured. However, when we look back from a certain time in the past to tell what had happened before, we use Past Perfect. Normal order in the past or looking back to an event before a certain time in the past?
