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Unit 6 discusses all four forms of the English past tense: past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. The past simple tense is used for actions that were completed at a definite time in the past. One of the salient and predictable morphological changes in the past simple is its ?ed? ending when it comes to regular verbs (e.g. begged, jumped, looked etcetera). However, in the case of irregular verbs, the verb forms in the simple past are not as predictable (e.g. go, went, drive, drove etcetera). The past continuous is used for interrupted past actions, gradual past developments, past actions which began before and probably continued afterwards and the description of past events or situations. The past continuous tense is formed with the verb to be in its past form followed by the action verb in its present participle form (ending in ?ing).? The only morphological changes that differentiates the present continuous from the past continuous is that the verb to be will be in its past form, (e.g. I am eating versus I was eating). The past perfect is used for actions that occurred before other actions in the past. This tense is formed with the past form of the verb ?to have? followed by the action verb in its past participle form (ending in ?ed).? The morphological changes that differentiates the present perfect continuous from the past perfect continuous is that the verb ?to have? will be in its past form, (e.g. I have eaten versus I had Eaton. The past perfect continuous is used for longer past continuous actions or situations and that their ending details are unimportant. The past perfect continuous is formed with the past form of the verb ?to have,? the past form of the verb ?to be? followed by the action verb in its present participle form (ending in ?ing).? The only morphological changes that differentiates the present perfect continuous from the past perfect continuous is that the verb ?to have? and ?to be? will be in its past form, (e.g. I have been eating versus I had been eating.
