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Past tense is divided into four tenses: past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. Past simple: This tense is used for a past action when the time is given or when the action took place at a definite time even though the time is not mentioned. Form in case of regular verbs: a. Affirmative: subject+ base form(+d/ed)+ rest of the sentence Example: I/You/They/He/She/It played football. b. Negative: subject+ auxiliary verb ?did?+ not+ base form+ rest of the sentence Example: I/You/They/He/She/It did not play football. c. Question: auxiliary verb ?did?+ subject+ base form+ rest of the question Example: Did I/you/they play football? Many verbs have irregular simple past form which cannot be created using simple ?d? or ?ed? to the base form. A few examples are saw, came, went, found, put, let. Past continuous: This tense is used to talk about an interrupted past action, a gradual development which took place in the past, an action which began before that time and probably continued after it and while describing a scenario. a. Form: Affirmative: subject+ was/were + verb+ing + rest of the sentence Example: He/She/It/I was playing football. They were playing football. b. Negative: subject+ was/were + not + verb+ing + rest of the sentence Example: He/She/It was not playing football. They were not playing football. c. Question: Was/Were + subject+ verb+ing + rest of the question Example: Was I/she/he/it playing football? Were they playing football? Past perfect: This is similar to the present perfect. It represents the actions that occurred before other actions in the past. Past perfect is the past viewed from another past viewpoint. Example: When we reached the station, the train had already left. Past perfect continuous: This tense talks about the situations in the past that had been going on continuously up to the past moment that we are thinking about. a. Form: Affirmative: subject + ?had? + been + verb+ing + rest of the sentence Example: Before going out for lunch, I/we/you/they/he/she/it had been playing for two hours. b. Negative: subject + ?had?+ not + been + verb+ing + rest of the sentence Example: Before going out for lunch, I/we/you/they/he/she/it had not been playing for two hours. Question: auxiliary verb ?had?+ subject+ been + verb+ing + rest of the question Example: Had I/we/you/they/he/she/it been playing for two hours before going out for lunch?
