The document describes different past verb tenses in English including the simple past, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. The simple past is used to indicate completed past actions or past habits. The past continuous describes an action that was ongoing at a specific time in the past. The past perfect describes an action that was completed before another past action or time. The past perfect continuous describes an ongoing past action that began before and continued up until another point in the past.

2. SIMPLE PAST:
The simple past is used to indicate an
action completed in the past. The simple
past tense is also used for past habit.

3. e.g:
She always carried an umbrella

4. Past continuous Tense:
The action going on at
some time in the past

5. . e.g:
It was getting darker.

6. Past perfect tense:
Latter before he the past
perfect describes an
action completed before
a certain moment in the
past.

7. e.g:
I had written the novel.
When I reached the
station the train had
started.

8. Past perfect continuouse
tense:
The past perfect continous
is used for an action that
began before a certain point
in the past and continued up
to that time.

9. .
e.g
He had been writing a
novel

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