> Past tenses in English grammar, including simple past, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous, explaining their forms and uses.
Past tenses in English describe actions or situations that happened before the present moment. There are three main past tenses: simple past (e.g., “I walked”), past continuous (e.g., “I was walking”), and two perfect tenses—past perfect (e.g., “I had walked”) and past perfect continuous (e.g., “I had been walking”). Each tense has a specific structure and function, helping us express completed actions, ongoing processes in the past, or actions that happened before other past events.
Last updated: Sat May 31, 2025
