Past perfect tense

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​The past perfect tense is used to show that something happened before another action in the past.

The past perfect, sometimes called pluperfect, describes events in the past. This is a specific type of tense and even when it seems hard to use, it is actually pretty easy. This tense describes events that happened in the middle of another event in the past, or which „passed in the past“. To construct the past perfect tense, we need to know all the irregular verbs and their forms.

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Past Continuous Tense

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​The past continuous tense is used to describe actions that began in the past and often continued for a short period of time after the action started.

The past continuous (sometimes past progressive) tense is a really important tense used in English. This tense is very often used in daily conversation so it is really necessary to know how to use it.

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Past Simple Tense

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The past simple tense (sometimes called preterite, simple past or past indefinite) is the basic form of the past tense. This is one of the most common past tenses and can describe a lot of events. It is really important to know how and when to use this tense for daily conversation.

But there are a lot of irregular past tense forms in English. Here are the most common irregular verbs in English, with their past tense forms. We have prepared some examples of past simple time.

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