LEVEL 5 GRAMMAR, APRIL 10TH, 2018

We looked at narrative tenses in general; the Past simple, past continuous and past perfect.




The past continuous is used for background information,

The Past simple is used to tell what happened, and

The Past Perfect is used to tell what had happened before a point in the past.

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