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This unit clarifies the differences of the past tenses, their specific usages and common errors that are made when applying them. Past simple tense is used for actions completed at a specific time in the past and are often confused with present perfect tense. e.g. \" I met him before the war\" (past simple) and \"I have met him before\" (present perfect). Past continuous tense indicates a situation that was developing. e.g. Last night, the students were listening to their music. A time reference is almost always required to make sense of the sentence. Past perfect tense refers to an event that took place before another event already in the past. e.g. \"When I saw her again, I realized I had been in love with her for ages.\" It stresses completed actions. Past perfect continuous offers an opportunity to talk about situations in the past that had been going on continuously up to the past moment we were thinking about. e.g. \"Before letting the visitors in, Bob had been reading a book.\" Common errors include omitting one of the two auxiliary verbs or failing to add \"ing\" to the main form. A good teacher would need to have many different approaches and activities on hand to reinforce these important and often confusing differences between the past tenses.
