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This unit focused on the past tenses (past, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous), their forms, and usages. I really thought I had a good grasp of the past tense, however, some of the explanations in the unit, and more so on this quiz, were rather unclear to me. Specifically, questions 5-8 and 12 have been driving (present perfect continuous) me crazy (not literally, of course). Number 12: Past continuous Action in progress at a specific time in the past A completed past action An action that was completed before a past time An action that began in the past and continues up until the present time --- I believe the wording \"specific time in the past\" is misleading. Past perfect: actions occurred before other actions in the past (\"had finished\") Past perfect continuous: actions in the past that had been going on ... not knowing if it occurred after (\"had been +ing\") Past continuous: without a time expression, descriptions, expressing an action that began before that time and probably continued afterwards (\"was + ing\") Past: time given, definite time (\"ed\" with exceptions) Questions five through eight: - An action that began before a time in the past and continued up until that time with no indication whether or not the action continued beyond that time. Past continuous? - Action in progress at a past time - Completed past action ... past perfect (\"had\" + 'ed') - Action completed before another past action. This is past perfect ... the past in the past ... or is it supposed to be past perfect continuous?
