- Past simple
- Describes the main events of the story
- Describes sequences of events
- It is the 'standard' narrative tense. If in doubt, go for past simple.
- Past continuous
- Describes unfinished actions, especially around a certain time
- Describes longer actions interrupted by shorter ones
- Is often used for describing background actions
- Is sometimes used to make the actions in a story seem more immediate, especially with the word now
- Past perfect
- Describes actions which took place before the main actions in the story
- Past perfect continuous
- Describes longer continuous actions which took place before the main actions in the story
- Is sometimes used to explain the condition of people or things at the time of the main events in the story.
- Is sometimes used after words like "discovered" or "realised" (these are often verbs of mind)
Two other things to worry about!!
Past habits: used to +inf and would + inf
Future in the past: was -ing / was to inf / would + inf
feel
meal
door
saw
grin
in
cried
right
bite
feel
meal
yelping
helping
air
here
hat
that
hair
chair
red
said...
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