This document provides an overview of different English verb tenses including the past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple, past perfect continuous, used to, be used to, and get/got used to. It defines each tense and provides examples of their usage in sentences. The tenses covered include those used to describe completed actions, repeated actions, interrupted actions, actions that occurred before other past actions, actions that started in the past and continued up to another time in the past, and expressions of past habits or routines.

1. Jéssica Leal
Sonia Latif
Revised & Completed by
Nur Garriga

2. Past Simple
Actions /events which started in the past
and finished in the past
E.g.: He finished his homework
Things which happened repeatedly in the past
E.g.: She went to France every summer.
E.g.: She used to go to France every summer.
Past states
E.g.: It rained yesterday.
E.g. I was very ill when I was 9, now I’m healthy though.

3. Past Continuous
Actions in progress at a certain
moment in the past
E.g.: I was watching TV at 7pm.
A past action interrupted by another
E.g.: He was kissing her, when her father arrived!
While he was kissing her, her father arrived!

4. Past Perfect Simple
Actions/situations which happened
before other past actions in the past
E.g.: When I arrived at 5pm, they had (already) eaten everything . 
Actions or situations which happened before
a specific moment in the past
E.g.: By the time he was 12, he had travelled around the world.
With the expressions “It WAS the first, second, third time…/
BEFORE”
E.g.: It was the first time that he had seen Sagrada Familia.
He hadn’t been to Sagrada Família before.

5. Past Perfect Continuous
A finished action or situation which happened
before another which is also finished.
E.g.: He had been waiting there for more than
two hours, when she finally arrived.

6. USED TO
Something that happened regularly in
the past but no longer exists in the present
E.g.: I used to smoke (infinitive), but I
stopped last year. Well done!!!! ;-)

7. BE USED TO (present or past)
+ (Vb+ing)
Present Routine
E.g.: We are used to going to the gym. / We usually go to
the gym.
Past Routine: People who were accustomed to doing
something in the past, because it was usual, but now they
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don’t do it anymore.
E.g.: They were used to walking everywhere.
I was used to going to the gym at
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that time.
Future Routine: I’ll be used to getting up at 6am.

8. GET (present) GOT (past)
USED TO + (Vb+ing)
PRESENT: People who are getting accustomed to
something OR to doing something.
E.g. You are getting used to travelling abroad.
PAST: People who had become accustomed to something
OR to doing something.
E.g.: They got used to being famous.
People who were getting accustomed to something OR to
doing something.
E.g.: We were getting used to speaking English in
class.