Tuesday 31 October 2023
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Past Simple vs Past Continuous
A picture is worth a thousand words…
We use the Past Simple to talk about finished actions in the past:
– We visited our grandparents last weekend.…We use the Past Continuous to talk about an activity in progress in a particular moment in
the past:
– Last Saturday at 10.00 pm we were visiting our grandparents.…We can use both tenses, Past Simple and Past Continuous, in the same sentence, and here we will find that something suddenly happens when
an activity is in process:…– We were waiting for the bus, when the accident happened.
– When my mother arrived, I was watching TV.
– The students were speaking, when the teacher came in.
– We visited our grandparents last weekend.…We use the Past Continuous to talk about an activity in progress in a particular moment in
the past:
– Last Saturday at 10.00 pm we were visiting our grandparents.…We can use both tenses, Past Simple and Past Continuous, in the same sentence, and here we will find that something suddenly happens when
an activity is in process:…– We were waiting for the bus, when the accident happened.
– When my mother arrived, I was watching TV.
– The students were speaking, when the teacher came in.
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