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This unit covers the past tenses: past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. It was helpful for me to note these consistencies: 1) All continuous forms feature some form of the verb ?to be? and the ?ing? form of the verb. 2) All perfect forms feature some form of the verb ?to have? and the past participle. 3) All perfect continuous forms feature some form of the verb?to have,? plus ?been,? and the ?ing? form of the verb. I will struggle, as a teacher, to differentiate between the past perfect and the past perfect continuous. The past perfect is primarily used to discuss actions that occurred before other actions in the past. The past perfect continuous is used to talk about longer actions in the past that had been going on continuously up to the past moment about which the sentence is addressing. The key difference is the length and nature of the past moment. A major challenge in helping students differentiate will be providing practical applications during which it is necessary and natural to use the past perfect and past perfect continuous. I can envision a detective game in which all four tenses can be easily incorporated.
