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    The document compares and contrasts the past simple and past continuous verb tenses in English. It provides the structures for affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms for both tenses. It then gives examples of using each tense and explains the main uses of the past continuous tense, which is to describe actions that were ongoing or in progress during another past time frame or event.

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    The document compares and contrasts the past simple and past continuous verb tenses in English. It provides the structures for affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms for both tenses. It then gives examples of using each tense and explains the main uses of the past continuous tense, which is to describe actions that were ongoing or in progress during another past time frame or event.

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    PAST SIMPLE VS PAST

    CONTINUOS
    STRUCTURES

    PAST
    PAST SIMPLE
    SIMPLE

    NEGATIVE
    NEGATIVE QUESTION
    QUESTION
    subject + DID + NOT
    subject + DID + NOT DID + subject + 
    DID + subject + 
    AFFIRMATIVE
    AFFIRMATIVE
    + verb + complement.
    + verb + complement. + verb + complement.
    + verb + complement.
    subject + verb
    subject + verb (in
    (in past
    past form) + c
    form) + c subject + WAS/WERE + NOT
    subject + WAS/WERE + NOT WAS/WERE + subject + 
    WAS/WERE + subject + 
    + complement.
    + complement. + complement.
    + complement.

    I didn’t Did you eat breakfast
    Did you eat breakfast this
    this
    II lived
    lived in
    in London
    London for
    for 10
    10 years
    years I didn’t have any
    have any lunch yesterday
    lunch yesterday
    morning?
    morning?
    He
    He was
    was baker,
    baker, now
    now he
    he is
    is retired
    retired We
    We weren’t
    weren’t at
    at home
    home last
    last holiday
    holiday
    Was
    Was the
    the class
    class interesting?
    interesting?
    AFFIRMATIVE I  WAS MAKING
    subject + (to be) + dinner when she
    verb + -ing arrived.

    NEGATIVE I wasn’t
    listening when the
    PAST CONTINUOUS subject + (to be) + not teacher gave the
    + verb + -ing instructions.

    INTERROGATIVE
    “What were you doing
    (to be) + subject + when I called you?”
    verb + -ing
    PAST CONTINUOUS USES
    • 1. WE USE THE PAST CONTINUOUS TO SHOW A PAST ACTION IN PROGRESS DURING ANOTHER
    SHORTER PAST ACTION OR A SPECIFIC TIME.
    • When it started to rain, I was walking on the beach.
    • I was doing my homework when she called.
    • I was eating breakfast at 7:00.
    • 2. TO DESCRIBE MULTIPLE ACTIONS HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME IN THE PAST.
    • While Sara was sleeping, John was watching TV.
    • Tom was studying and Susan was teaching.
    • 3. TO DESCRIBE MULTIPLE ACTIONS HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME IN THE PAST.
    • While Sara was sleeping, John was watching TV.
    • Tom was studying and Susan was teaching.
    • They were eating while she was talking.
    Can you see a difference in the meaning of these two sentences?

    When the guests arrived, Jane was cooking dinner.


    When the guests arrived, Jane cooked dinner.

    In the first one, Jane started had started cooking dinner before the
    guests arrived. We know that because it uses the past continuous. In the
    second sentence, the guests arrived first and then Jane started cooking.

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