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past cs
past continious and past simple
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| When the phone rang, she was writing a letter. | Use the Past Continuous to indicate that a longer action in the past was interrupted. The interruption is usually an action in the Simple Past. |
| Last night at 10 p.m, I was eating dinner. | In USE 1, described above, the Past Continuous is interrupted by an action in the Simple Past. However, you can also use a specific time as an interruption. |
| I was studying while he was making dinner. | When you use the Past Continuous with two actions in the same sentence, it expresses the idea that both actions were happening at the same time. The actions are parallel. |
| I saw a movie yesterday. | We use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past. Sometimes the speaker may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have one specific time in mind. |
| I finished work, walked to the beach, and found a nice place to swim. | We use the Simple Past to list a series of completed actions in the past. |
| They sat at the beach all day. | The Simple Past can be used with a duration which starts and stops in the past. A duration is a long action often used with expressions like "for two years," "for five minutes," "all day" or "all year." |
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