What are past tense verbs?
The English language has three basic tenses: past, present, and future. Within these verb tenses, there is a perfect form to indicate completed action, a progressive form to indicate ongoing action, and a perfect progressive form to indicate ongoing action that will be completed at some definite time. For example: Simple Form Progressive Form Perfect Form Perfect Progressive Form Past took was/were taking had taken had been taking Present take/s am/is/are taking have/has taken have/has been taking Future will/shall take will be taking will have taken will have been taking The purpose of past tense verbs within the English language is to express activity, action, state, or being in the past. For example: • “We visited the grocery store yesterday.” Visited is a simple past tense verb that is used to describe a completed action. • “Emily said that she went to the mall.” Said is a past perfect tense verb that describes reported speech. • “They were driving for three days.” Were driving is
