📄️ Past
There are a number of ways of talking about the past:
📄️ Past simple (I worked)
Past simple: form
📄️ Past continuous (I was working)
Past continuous: form
📄️ Past perfect simple (I had worked)
Past perfect simple: form
📄️ Past perfect continuous (I had been working)
Past perfect continuous: form
📄️ Past continuous or past simple?
Past continuous = I was working Past simple = I worked
📄️ Past simple or present perfect?
Past simple = I worked Present perfect = I have worked
📄️ Past perfect simple or past simple?
Past perfect simple I saw
📄️ Past perfect simple or past perfect continuous?
Past perfect simple = I had worked Past perfect continuous = I had been working
📄️ Past verb forms referring to the present
Being polite or less direct
📄️ Past: typical errors
We use the past simple, not the past continuous, to talk about past habits:
📄️ Used to
Used to: meaning and form
📄️ It’s time
We can use the expression it’s time + subject + past verb form to refer to the present moment: