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This unit explains the past tenses. The past simple is used for a past action when the time is given and when the time is asked about. It's also used when the action clearly took place at a definite time even though this time is not mentioned. Sometimes the time becomes definite as a result of a question and answer in the present perfect. The past simple of I work becomes I worked. The past continuous is formed by the past tense of the auxiliary verb be (was/were) and the present participle (verb+'ing'). It's used for interrupted past actions and without a time expression but a gradual development that took place in the past. It can express an action, which began before that time and probably continued after it. It's used as well for descriptions. The past perfect consists of a subject, 'had' and the past participle. I work in the past perfect becomes I had worked. It's used for actions that occured before other actions in the past. It's the past viewed from another past viewpoint. The past perfect coninuous consists of a subject, 'had', 'been' and verb+'ing'. I work in the past perfect coninuous becomes I had been working. It's used to talk about longer actions or situations in the past that had been going on continuously up to the past moment that we are thinking about.
