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The past perfect tenses are used for a ‘before past’ — for things that
had already happened before the past time that we are talking about.
| looked carefully, and realized that | had seen her somewhere before.
| was tired, because | had been working all day.

241 past time: simple past
1 Forms

Affirmative Question Negative

| worked did | work? | did not work
you worked did you work? you did not work
he/she/it worked, did he/she/it work? he/she/it did not work,

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2 Meanings
We use the simple past tense to talk about many kinds of past events:
short, quickly finished actions and happenings, longer situations, and
repeated events.
Peter broke a window last night.

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| spent all my childhood in Scotland.

PAST FUTURE