The document discusses different tenses in English used to describe events in the past: 1) Simple past tense is used to describe completed actions or events that happened at a definite time in the past. It uses suffixes like -ed or irregular forms. 2) Past perfect tense describes actions that occurred before other past actions. It uses the auxiliary verb "had" plus the past participle. 3) Past continuous tense describes ongoing or repetitive actions that were happening at a specific time in the past. It uses the auxiliary verbs "was/were" plus the present participle (-ing form). 4) Past perfect continuous tense describes past actions that started in the past and continued up until another time in

1. TIME AND TENSE ( PAST TENSE )