Understanding Past Tenses in English

This video tutorial covers the four past tenses in English: simple past, past perfect, past continuous, and past perfect continuous. It explains how to form each tense, provides examples, and discusses their usage. The tutorial also includes exercises to help learners apply their understanding of these tenses.

Which of the following sentences is in the Simple Past tense?

• I am walking to the store.

• I will walk to the store.

• I walked to the store.

• I have walked to the store.

How is the Simple Past tense of regular verbs typically formed?

• By adding 'ing' to the verb

• By adding 'ed' to the verb

• By adding 'es' to the verb

• By adding 's' to the verb

Which of the following is an example of an irregular verb in the Simple Past tense?

• Walked

• Pushed

• Drove

• Waved

What is the structure of the Past Perfect tense?

• Had + past participle

• Will have + past participle

• Had been + present participle

• Was + present participle

Which sentence correctly uses the Past Perfect tense?

• She had been walking to the store.

• She will have walked to the store.

• She was walking to the store.

• She had walked to the store.

What is the structure of the Past Continuous tense?

• Had + past participle

• Will have + past participle

• Was/Were + present participle

• Had been + present participle

Which sentence correctly uses the Past Continuous tense?

• She had walked to the store.

• She was walking to the store.

• She will have walked to the store.

• She had been walking to the store.

What is the structure of the Past Perfect Continuous tense?

• Had been + present participle

• Will have + past participle

• Was/Were + present participle

• Had + past participle

Which sentence correctly uses the Past Perfect Continuous tense?

• She had been walking to the store.

• She will have walked to the store.

• She had walked to the store.

• She was walking to the store.

Which of the following sentences is in the Past Perfect Continuous tense?

• I had been studying for hours.

• I am studying for hours.

• I studied for hours.

• I will study for hours.