Telling a story: narrative tenses

Telling a good story and making it really interesting can be hard! If you just list all the things that happened, people will soon get bored and stop listening. But if you add in background details and description, and create some suspense or surprise, then you can keep everyone hooked right to the end! And that’s where narrative tenses – the past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous – come in. Learn how in just two minutes in this lesson!