This document provides an overview of key concepts for expressing past time and tense in English, including:
- The simple past tense is used to express actions or situations that began and ended completely in the past. Examples of its forms are given for regular and irregular verbs.
- The past progressive expresses actions that were ongoing or in progress at a specific time in the past. It uses the past tense of "be" plus the present participle verb form ending in "-ing."
- Time clauses beginning with words like "after," "before," "until," "as soon as," "while," and "when" can be used to express the sequence or timing of past events. The time clause is usually followed