Matching Pairs Past TenseOnline version English by Christian Ordóñez 1 Past Continuos 2 Past Perfect 3 Past Simple 4 Past Perfect Continuos It is a verbal tense that we use to express actions in progress in the past Is used to refer to an action that occurred in the past before another. It is used to indicate that something started in the past and continued up to another action or time in the past. Is used to talk about actions or events that occurred in the past and have already ended.