Name: Past Continuous vs Past Perfect vs Past Perfect Continuous - English Tenses (Lesson 8)
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hello and welcome Everyone you're back with me Know at dangling for our eighth video in the Siri's learned the tenses Today we're going to look at three past tenses past continues I was doing past perfect.

To-infinitive

I have done and past perfect continues I have been doing By the end of the video you will have a clear idea of how to use the senses to speak about past events and how they work in conjunction with the past simple tents.

Modal verbs - A2

Then past continues past perfect on past Perfect continues.

Let's start by looking at the formulation past continues the verb to be in the past and the i n g form off the verb I was playing You are playing He she it was playing you we and they were playing Let's forget the past perfect had on the participle for a ll the prone owls I had played You have played he she it we you and they had played.

And finally the past perfect continues had been and the i n g form off the verb I had been playing Andi.

It stays the same for a ll the pronounce you.

Let's look at usage now, starting with past continuous, the past continues.

Tents refers to an action in progress in the past, either when a shorter action took place.

Oh, that's a very precise moment in the past.

They were flying to Tokyo at this time yesterday.

Note that the shorter action is always in the past.

This past simple action may or may not stop the action in progress.

Let's look at the timeline for the past continuous stents.

That's the action in progress when she arrived, when another action took place in the middle of it.

Now let's look at the usage off the past perfect tense.

The past perfect tense refers to an action that was completed in the past, either before another action took place.

He had slept a little before the phone rang.

It had started to snow by 10 a.m. Yesterday.

By this time yesterday, I was sure, but I had seen him before.

Note that the second or the later action is always in the past.

Let's have a look at the timeline for the past.

One action was completed before the second Later action.

Right then, let's move on to the usage off.

Past perfect, continuous distance refers to an action that had started, had continued for some time and was still in progress either before another action.

Oh, before a very precise moment in the past.

We have bean playing cards for two hours.

When she arrived, he had been sleeping for a long time when the phone rang.

It had been snowing for several hours by 10 a.m. Yesterday.

They have been flying to Tokyo for a few hours.

By this time yesterday, note again that the second or later action is always in the past.

We had bean playing cards for two hours when she arrived.

Right then, that must have easily clarified the differences between these tenses for you.

The most common mistake is using the past simple.

Instead, off past continues or past, perfect or past Perfect continues.

Now hear clearly one action was longer and was interrupted by another action.

So one off these either saw or drove, has to be in the past, continues.

I was speaking when he put the phone down.

Now here it's important that one action Waas completed before the other one.

He missed the bus first, so that should go into the past perfect tense.

He was late because he had missed the bus.

Well, clearly, one action has happened before.

In this final example, you have three verbs walked, realized and forgot to offthe um, happened before the 3rd 1 which is realize, Let's change the verbs.

I had been walking toe work for 15 minutes when I realized I had forgotten my key right, just a couple of notes off some situations where you might see past simple tents used twice in the same sentence.

If you use the past simple tents for both verbs in a sentence, it means that the two actions happened at the same time.

When he arrived, the two actions happened at the same time, and they were the same length.

Also, if the two actions happened quickly, one after the other very close to each other.

You can use the past simple tents instead of the past.

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Past Continuous vs Past Perfect vs Past Perfect Continuous - English Tenses (Lesson 8)

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