It was raining when I reached home

In learning English, the correct usage of tenses is very important. With much reading and practice, tenses will come naturally as we write. In this post, I would like to discuss two pairs of verb forms that go together. These pairs are past tense and past perfect tense and past tense and past continuous tense.

Examples of the pair of past tense and past perfect are as follows:
1 He started to watch television when he had finished his homework.
2 John had taken his lunch before he went out.

These are the examples involving the pair of past tense and past continuous tense:
1 It was raining when I reached home.
2 He was playing computer games when I went to see him.