​Using narative tenses

• ​To write more stories based in the past, we use narrative tenses. The most common tenses are

  1. ​Past Simple

  2. ​Past Continuous

  3. ​Past Perfect Simple

  4. ​Past Perfect Continuous

​Past Simple

• ​to talk about completed action/state in the past, series of actions that happened one after other in the past or to take the action of the story further.

• ​eg: walked, bought etc

​Past Continuous

• ​to set the scene of the story.

• ​to talk about an action that was in progress in the past when another action interrupted it

• ​eg: was + Verb + ing (was walking, were eating)

​Past Perfect

• ​To talk about an action that happened before the time of the narrative or another past action.

• ​eg: had + participle ( had walked, had eaten)

​Past Perfect Continuous

• ​to talk about an action that was in progress for some time in the past which was interrupted by another past action, or which had an effect on a later event in the past

• ​eg: had + been + verb + ing (had been trying, had been looking)