Fill in the Blanks Tense RulesOnline version Read the sentences in the Grammar box and complete these rules with simple past, past continuous, past perfect, or used to. by Kübra Erdoğan 1 used continuous simple past past past to perfect When we tell stories or talk about actions or events in the past : 1 . We use the to describe an incomplete action or event when another action happened . The actions are often connected with when , while , or as . We also use it to give background information . It is not used with stative verbs ( know , love , etc . ) . 2 . We usually use the to describe completed actions in the past . If actions happen one after another , we use this tense . 3 . We use the to emphasize that one past action finished before another past action . The actions are often connected with after , before , and already . 4 . We usually use to talk about situations , habits , and routines that were true in the past but are not true anymore .
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