Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect Tenses

for past activity begining before past event and continuing until or after it

for an unfinished activity around a time in the past

to talk about something that happened before a past event

for completed actions, events or situations in the past

for past activity begining before past event and continuing until or after it

to talk about something that happened before a past event

for completed actions, events or situations in the past

for past activity begining before past event and continuing now

for completed actions, events or situations in the past

for past activity begining before past event and continuing until or after it

to talk about something that happened before a past event

for an unfinished activity around a time in the past

Past Continuous

Past Simple

Past Perfect

PSPV

played & stoped

are playing & is stoped

plaing & stop

were playing & stoped

play & cook

played & cook

was playing & cooked

was playing & was cooking

write & go

writing & went

wrote & are gone

was writing & went

had got & bought

got & bought

get & buy

was getting & bought

look & see

looked & saw

had looked & saw

looked & was seeing

realized & travelled

realize & had travelled

was realizing & was travelling

realized & was travelling

told & had seen

tell & saw

was telling & was seeing

told & saw

find & lost

found & had lost

was finding & had lost

had finding & lost

speak & did

was speaking & was doing

spoke & had done

had spoken & did