Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Past
Continuous
Use the simple Use the past
past for: continuous for:
1) action that 1)action that was in
happened in the progress at a specific
past and point in the past
is . . . OR
WAS
I, He, She, It
You, We, They WERE
Examples:
I liked Rome.
NOT: I was liking Rome.
stole
now future
past
were enjoying
Past Progressive & Simple Past 2
Use past progressive for the action in progress. Use when and
the simple past for the action that interrupts.
now
past snatched future
was reading
Form sentences with while. Use
Practice 2 the past progressive.