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    The document summarizes the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. [1] The past simple tense is used to talk about completed actions or series of actions in the past, while the past continuous tense is used to talk about ongoing or progressive actions that were interrupted by other events in the past. [2] It provides examples of how to form the past simple and past continuous tenses using different verbs. [3] It also shows how questions are formed in the past simple and past continuous tenses.

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    The document summarizes the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. [1] The past simple tense is used to talk about completed actions or series of actions in the past, while the past continuous tense is used to talk about ongoing or progressive actions that were interrupted by other events in the past. [2] It provides examples of how to form the past simple and past continuous tenses using different verbs. [3] It also shows how questions are formed in the past simple and past continuous tenses.

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    Past Simple and Past Continuous

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    FRANK LUIS GUANIPA RAMIREZ
    The document summarizes the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. [1] The past simple tense is used to talk about completed actions or series of actions in the past, while the past continuous tense is used to talk about ongoing or progressive actions that were interrupted by other events in the past. [2] It provides examples of how to form the past simple and past continuous tenses using different verbs. [3] It also shows how questions are formed in the past simple and past continuous tenses.

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    Past simple

    and
    Past continuous
    Past Tenses
    Finished actions Progress in the past

    A series of events in the Two simultaneous


    past actions in the past

    Past Simple Past Continuous

    • I lived in New York 2 years ago. • I was writing a letter to my friend from 5
    to 6 on Sunday.
    He met us at the station.
    • They were playing football at 5
    yesterday.
    • He shut the window, switched off
    the light and went upstairs • Mother was cooking dinner while I was
    doing my English homework.
    Past Tenses
    Past Simple

    I lived in New York 2 years ago.

    Past 2015-2017 2018 - Present

    Finished action Now I live in London.

    Series of actions in
    the past
    Past Tenses
    Past Simple

    He closed the window, and went downstairs.

    Past

    Finished action
    switched off the light
    Series of actions in
    the past
    Past Tenses
    Past Continuous

    Mum was cooking, while I was doing


    my homework.

    Past

    Finished action
    Two simultaneous
    actions in the past
    Past Tenses
    Past Simple Past Continuous

    While the action was in progress something happened in the middle and
    interrupted it.
    Progress in the past
    Interrupted action
    when suddenly

    Past I was cycling in the evening a man stepped on my way.


    Formation
    Past Simple Past Continuous

    I worked go - went You


    We
    You cooked come - came
    They
    were working.
    He walked make - made
    She opened run - ran
    It cleaned write - wrote I
    He was working.
    We tried buy - bought
    She
    You shouted teach - taught It
    They washed eat - ate
    Formation
    Past Simple Past Continuous

    You
    I We
    You They
    weren’t working.
    He
    She didn’t work.
    It I
    We He wasn’t working.
    They She
    It
    Formation
    Past Simple Past Continuous

    you
    I we
    you
    Were they
    working?
    he
    Did she work?
    it
    we I
    they Was he working?
    she
    it
    https://wordwall.net/es/resource/8349910/angol/past-simple-questions
    Used to
    What did you use to watch when you were a child?

    I used to watch the power rangers when I was a child.

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