Grammar learning path · B2 Upper Intermediate
Past narrative viewpoints.
Control the reader’s viewpoint in longer past narratives. Study completed and ongoing earlier events, combine all four main narrative tenses, and then add habitual would for repeated actions once the past setting is established.
First lesson · Past Perfect (B2)
What you'll learn.
- Use past perfect for earlier completion and background.
- Use past perfect continuous for duration and ongoing cause.
- Coordinate narrative tenses without unnecessary backshifting.
- Use habitual would only for repeated actions in a clear past frame.
Before you start.
- Control B1 past simple, past continuous, and basic past perfect.
Lessons in this path.
Take them in order- 1Lesson 1Past Perfect (B2)
Deepens the past perfect for cause, earlier states, optional sequencing, unrealised expectations, reporting, hypotheticals, and inversion.
- 2Lesson 2Past Perfect Continuous
Adds duration and ongoing cause before a past point, contrasting it with past perfect, past continuous, and present perfect continuous.
- 3Lesson 3Narrative tenses
Coordinates past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous as layers within coherent stories.
- 4Lesson 4Would - Expressing habits in the past
Adds habitual would for repeated past actions in an established narrative frame, contrasting it with used to and past states.
Ready?
Past Perfect (B2).
Begin with the first lesson and work through the practice at your own pace.