Past tenses in English - Linguapress
https://linguapress.com/grammar/past-tenses.htmEnglish uses three principal forms of the past, the Simple Past (or preterite), the Present Perfect (or compound past), and the Past perfect, sometimes called the Pluperfect. There is also a special tense called the future perfect. All of these forms can also be used with a progressive aspect. Forms of past tenses : sample verb make 1. Simple active forms