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