Tenses, cases of their usageOnline version Group the cases of usage of the Past Continuous, the Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Continuous by Asiya Karmanova 1 The Past Continuous 2 the Past Perfect 3 the Past Perfect Continuous An action which was going on in the given moment in the past. An action going on in the given period of time in the past. Actions characterizing the person denoted by the subject, bringing out the person's typical traits. To indicate a future action viewed from the past. An action which was supposed to take place due to one's previous decision. An action accomplished before a given past moment and viewed back from the given past moment. An action which began before the given past moment and continues into it or up to it. (with stative verbs, with some dynamic verbs of durative meaning, in negative sentences). A future action viewed from the past in adverbial clauses of time introduced by conjunction ""when, before, after, as soon as, till and until" An action which began before the given past moment and continues into it or up to it. An action which was in progress just before the given past moment and it effects the past situation in some way.
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