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    This document provides information about the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It outlines the forms of the affirmative, interrogative, and negative constructions. It also lists common time phrases used with each tense and gives examples of how they are used to talk about completed past actions, ongoing past actions, sequences of events, past habits, and interrupted past actions.

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    PAST SIMPLE VERSUS PAST CONTINUOUS

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    PAST SIMPLE VERSUS PAST CONTINUOUS

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    This document provides information about the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It outlines the forms of the affirmative, interrogative, and negative constructions. It also lists common time phrases used with each tense and gives examples of how they are used to talk about completed past actions, ongoing past actions, sequences of events, past habits, and interrupted past actions.

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    Past Simple Versus Past Continuous

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    This document provides information about the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It outlines the forms of the affirmative, interrogative, and negative constructions. It also lists common time phrases used with each tense and gives examples of how they are used to talk about completed past actions, ongoing past actions, sequences of events, past habits, and interrupted past actions.

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    PAST SIMPLE

    FORM:
    AFFIRMATIVE INTERROGATIVE NEGATIVE
    LONG FORM SHORT FORM
    I
    YOU
    HE
    SHE
    IT
    WE
    YOU
    THEY

    USES:
     ACTION WHICH HAPPENED AT A STATED PAST TIME
    E.g He bought a house last year/ two months ago/ in 2021.
     SEQUENCE OF PAST ACTIONS
    E.g They parked the car, took their bikes and rode off on the country
    road.
     ACTION WHICH WAS COMPLETED IN THE PAST
    E.g My parents saw Michael Jackson in a live concert. (They can’t see
    him again in a live concert because he is no longer alive)
     PAST HABITS / ROUTINES
    E.g We used to walk 4km a day when we were in high school.

    TIME PHRASES
     yesterday
     last week/month/year/summer/Thursday etc.
     two/three/ten days/weeks/months/ years ago;
     when …
     how long ago?
     In 1987
    PAST CONTINUOUS
    FORM
    AFFIRMATIVE INTERROGATIVE NEGATIVE
    LONG FORM SHORT FORM
    I
    YOU
    HE
    SHE
    IT
    WE
    YOU
    THEY

    USES:
     ACTION IN PROGRESS AT A DEFINITE PAST TIME;
    E.g He was running in the park at 4 o’clock yesterday.
     SIMULTANEOUS PAST ACTIONS
    E.g We were dancing while they were talking about the last football
    match.
     ACTION IN PROGRESS INTERRUPTED BY ANOTHER PAST
    ACTION
    E.g Gordon was painting his house when his ladder broke and he fell.

    TIME PHRASES:
     at … o’clock yesterday/two days ago/ last week etc.
     this time yesterday/two days ago/ last week etc.
     … While…
     As ….
     when

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