What are the correct forms for past simple, past perfect simple and past perfect continuous tenses?

Welcome to your new language! English is like your other language(s) – A person, place, or thing (called the “subject”) acts or “does something” (called the predicate). The rest of the parts of a sentence – adjectives, adverbs, etc. – modify those two parts of your sentence. Start by building your English vocabulary using your dictionary -- many English words have similarities to words in other languages: Mother (Mutter, madre, etc.); these are called “cognates”; and...

Welcome to your new language! English is like your other language(s) – A person, place, or thing (called the “subject”) acts or “does something” (called the predicate). The rest of the parts of a sentence – adjectives, adverbs, etc. – modify those two parts of your sentence. Start by building your English vocabulary using your dictionary -- many English words have similarities to words in other languages: Mother (Mutter, madre, etc.); these are called “cognates”; and all the other names for things (dog, door, window, street, etc.) and learn words for common actions: walk, run, jump, give, etc.  Then form sentences by combining them (subject first): dog barks, Mother sings, window opens, etc. Your teacher will teach you how to use articles, prepositions, pronouns, etc., and how to signify singular and plural (boy, boys) – called “number,” and how to show gender (his, her, etc.). Learning a language, of course, also means learning its sounds, so in addition to your classwork, you might want to listen to the radio or TV. Good luck! Bon Chance! Viele Gluck!