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This unit covered the different aspects of the past tense, giving an overview of form, usage, common errors and examples for activities in the activate stage.
The usage of the different aspects of present and past tense often lead to confusion. Students often confuse present perfect and simple past, but unlike the simple past, present perfect just relates the past to the present, while simple past is an action that started and finished in the past and therefore is definitely in past. Past simple is also often confused with past continuous in its usage because students forget that past continuous requires a specific time reference (except when describing a gradual development.).
Past perfect is the equivalent of present perfect, so it describes a completely finished action in the past. It is often used in conjunction with past simple to describe a finished action (past simple) and an action that finished before it (past perfect). Keywords for this usage are after and when.
Finally past perfect continuous is used to talk about actions that happened in the past and continue until the past moment we talk about. This tense is often confused with past perfect, which stressed a completed action), while past perfect continuous describes what happened around a specific time.
