Past Tenses

The past tense is a verb tense expressing activity, action state or being in the past. In English, there are two types of past tense:

• simple past (a)
• present tense  (b)

a)

Simple past include:

Past Progressive

Past Simple

Past Perfect

Past Perfect Progressive

b)

Present Perfect

Present Perfect Progressive

Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous (Progressive) refer both to the present and to the past.

• I have just eaten my chocolate bar.
• Mike has never seen a car like this before.