Advanced Language Practice
Advanced Language Practice
Advanced Language Practice
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Past perfect simple<br />
and continuous<br />
<strong>Advanced</strong> <strong>Language</strong> <strong>Practice</strong><br />
Changing states<br />
The car was getting worse all the time. One of the headlights was gradually<br />
falling off, and the engine was making more and more funny noises.<br />
Repeated actions - criticism<br />
With a frequency adverb, this use is similar to the use of present continuous to<br />
express annoyance.<br />
When Jane was at school, she was always losing things.<br />
3 Past continuous is not used to describe general habitual actions, without the<br />
sense of criticism mentioned above. Past simple is used for this meaning.<br />
When I lived in London, I walked through the park every day.<br />
1 Past perfect tenses in general refer to:<br />
An event in the past which happens before another event in the past, where there<br />
is no time expression to make this clear.<br />
By the time I got to the station, the train had left.
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