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    The document discusses the difference between the simple past and past progressive tenses in English. The simple past is used to talk about completed actions or situations in the past, while the past progressive expresses an ongoing or continuous action that was happening at a specific time in the past or during another past action. It provides examples of sentences using each tense and notes they have the same meaning when using "when" or "while" to refer to the time of another past action. Finally, it shows the forms used to express each tense in statements, negative statements, and questions.

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    Past Tense: Simple Vs Progressive

     Definition

    a) Herda walked downtown yesterday The simple past is used to talk about activities
    b) I slept for eight hours last night or situations that began and ended at a
    particular time in the past (e.g., yesterday, last
    night, two days ago, etc)
    a) I sat down at the dinner table at 6 P.M. The past progressive expresses an activity that
    yesterday. Tom came to my house at was in progress (was occurring, was
    6:10 P.M. I was eating dinner when happening) at a point of time in the past (e.g.,
    Tom came. at 6:10) or the time of another action (e.g.,
    b) I went to bed at 10 P.M. The phone when Tom came)
    rang at 11 P.M. I was sleeping when
    the phone rang.
    c) When the phone rang, I was sleeping When = at that time
    d) The phone rang while I was sleeping While = during that time
    C and d have the same meaning

     Forms

    Simple past Past progressive


    Statement I worked yesterday She was working
    He ate breakfast They were working
    Negative I didn’t work yesterday She was not working
    He didn’t eat breakfast They were not working
    Question Did you work yesterday? Was she working?
    Did he eat breakfast? Were they working?

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