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The document reviews the Past Simple and Past Continuous tenses, explaining their uses for completed actions and ongoing actions in the past, respectively. It details how to form negative and interrogative sentences for both tenses. Additionally, it illustrates how these tenses can be used together to show interruptions in ongoing actions.

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Past Simple and Past Continuous (1)

The document reviews the Past Simple and Past Continuous tenses, explaining their uses for completed actions and ongoing actions in the past, respectively. It details how to form negative and interrogative sentences for both tenses. Additionally, it illustrates how these tenses can be used together to show interruptions in ongoing actions.

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Past Simple and

Past Continuous
Review
Past simple
We use the past simple to talk about completed actions in the past.

Example: We arrived in London yesterday.

The past simple shows us that an action was in the past, not in the
present. In the past simple we have Regular verbs (-ed at the end) and
Irregular verbs.
Negative and Interrogative
Forms
To make the negative form of the Past Simple, we use did not (didn’t)
and the verb in the infinitive form.

Example: We didn’t arrive in London yesterday.

To make the interrogative form, we use the auxiliary Did at the


beginning of the question, and the verb in the infinitive form.

Example: Did you wake up early this morning?


Past Continuous
We use the Past Continuous for past actions or situations that continued
for a period of time.

Example: They were walking all day from morning till night.

In the past continuous we have to use the past of the verb To Be


(was/were) and a verb ending in -ing.
Negative and Interrogative
Forms
To make the negative form of the Past Continuous we have to write the
word NOT after the verb to be (was not / wasn’t or were not /
weren’t).

Example: We weren’t driving in the city.

To make the interrogative form, we place the verb to be at the


beginning of the question.

Example: Was she sleeping in the couch?


Past Simple AND Past
Continuous
We use the Past Continuous for actions or situations in progress in the
past and the Past Simple for actions that interrupt them.

Example: I was waiting for my train when I saw a friend.

Again, when we use these two tenses together, it shows us that the
past simple activity happened in the middle of the past continuous
action (while it was in progress.)

Other examples: I broke my leg when I was skiing.

We were watching television when the power went off.

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