Past Tense:Simple, Continuous, Perfect, Perfect Continuous 2022

Dear students let’s learn about Past tense. How to use past tense and its four sub-types in our communication. In the English language as well as in the English Grammar, the Past tense is most important tense to tell about our past actions.

Past Tense: 

• When we are telling about the action which is happened already that time we are telling our action in the past tense. 
• Past tense shows the actions already done or completed.
• Past tense is the tense where we tell our past actions.

Past tense has four tenses. Let us learn them

1. Simple Past Tense
2. Continuous Past Tense
3. Perfect Past Tense
4. Perfect Continuous Past Tense

Simple Past Tense:

• The action that happened or was completed at a particular time in the past it’s called the Simple Past tense.
• In the simple past tense, the past habitual action happened but we are not doing it in the present it’s called Simple Past Tense.
• The daily action we used to do in the past is called Simple Past Tense.
• The tradition we used to do in the past is called Simple Past Tense.
• In the simple past tense, we have to use the second form of Verb (Verb2)

The formula of the simple past tense:   

• Subject + Verb2 + Object

For Eg:  I played Cricket.

              We used to go for walk on the bank of the river.

               He went to school.

               Rahul bought a book for me.

               We sold gold ornaments.

               She won the prize.

Subject	verb
I, He, She, It, We, they, you, Singular Noun, Plural Noun	Verb2

Continuous Past Tense:

• The action was incomplete and was going on in the past it’s called Continuous Past Tense.
• The action was going on at any particular time in the past it’s called Continuous Past Tense.

The formula of the continuous present tense:   

• Subject + was, were + Verb1- ing + Object

For Eg: I was reading a novel.

             Rahul was working in the Bank.

             People were shouting in the crowd.

             They were playing a cricket match.

             She was blaming her Husband.

Subject	auxiliary verb (to be)
I, He, She, It, Singular Noun	was+ Verb1– ing
We, they, you, Plural Noun	were + Verb1– ing

Perfect Past Tense:

• The action had completed or done at a particular time in the past it’s called Perfect Past Tense.
• The action already had finished in the past it’s called Perfect Past Tense.
• In the Perfect Past Tense, we have to use Had as an auxiliary verb.
• In the Perfect Past Tense, we have to use the past participle form of the verb (Verb3).

The formula of the continuous past tense:   

• Subject + had + Verb3 + Object

For Eg: I had drawn a picture.

She had read a novel.

Rahul had completed his education.

We had gone to America.

Subject	auxiliary verb (to have)
I, He, She, It, We, they, you, Singular Noun, Plural Noun	had + Verb3

Perfect Continuous Past Tense:

• The action had been started in the past but not finished its called Past Perfect Continuous Tense.
• The action nearby completed but remains incomplete in the past it’s called Past Perfect Continuous Tense.
• In the past perfect continuous tense, we have to use been after the auxiliary verb had. (had+been)

The formula of the Perfect continuous past tense:   

• Subject + had + been + Verb1-ing + Object

Far Eg: I had been reading a novel.

He had been living in Delhi.

She had been drawing a picture.

They had been breaking their record.

Subject	auxiliary verb (to have)
I, He, She, It, We, they, you, Singular Noun, Plural Noun	Had + been + Verb3

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