Narrative Tenses: Past Simple, Continuous, Perfect, and Perfect Continuous

In this podcast episode, Finn and Catherine discuss narrative tenses, which are used to describe events that happened in the past and tell stories. They cover the past simple tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect continuous tense. The past simple tense is used for events and actions that started and finished in the past. The past continuous tense is used to describe the background of the story or ongoing activities at the time. The past perfect tense is used to talk about an action that happened before another past action. And the past perfect continuous tense is used for activities that continued for a length of time before another past event.