For actions starting and ending in the past we use this verb tense.
What is the Past Simple?
For actions starting in the past and continuing at the time of speaking we use this verb tense.
What is the past continuous?
For actions that started and ended in the past before another action that is also in the past we use this verb tense.
What is the Past Perfect?
For actions that were going on in the past up until another action in the past happened we use this verb tense.
What is Past Perfect Continuous?
This is the acronym for also known as
What is A.K.A?
The dog ______ (bury) his homework in the backyard.
What is buried?
This verb is used to help form the past continuous:
(subject) + ? + (verb+ing ending)
?= the helping verb
What is the verb to be?
This is our helping verb for the past perfect:
? + (past participle)
What is had?
She said she ___ ____ _______ (work) in a hospital when World War II started, and she worked there for many more years.
What is had been working
The contraction for I had
What is I'd
I _______ (hang) my clothes up in the closet
What is hung?
I _______ (sleep) when she _________ (called) .
What was sleeping, called?
When telling a story, words like First, then, after and finally that go well with this verb tense.
What is the past perfect?
Diego ___ ____ ______ the piano for 35 years when she was finally asked to do a solo with the local orchestra.
What is had been playing?
What is a bucket?
I ______ (sing) a lovely song in front of the audience.
What is sang?
One use for past continuous is to describe _____ actions that are happening at the same time in the past.
What is multiple?
When you are describing two past actions that take place at the same time, you can use past perfect tense to describe the _____ action.
What is shorter?
He ___ ___ _____ rocks at her window for five minutes before she finally came out on the balcony and said, “Hey, Romeo.”
What is had been throwing?
This word can be defined as this: hard to notice or see. Not obvious.
Example: It's such a small difference, its very ___________.
What is Subtle?
I _______ (speak) with the President about the new law that was being passed.
What is spoke?
These are two common signal words for the past continuous.
What are when and while?
If I ____ _____ (to get) up in time, I would have made it to work by 8am.
Use past perfect tense!
What is had gotten?
What is the main use for Past Perfect Continuous?
What is describing an action that began further in the past than other actions but overlaps with actions that began later?
This word means "to walk fast" or "to run slow".
What is to jog?
Now PRONOUNCE it :)