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Look at the previous exercise. Can you find the difference between the
past simple and the past continuous? When do we use the past
continuous?
In words
The Past Simple The Past Continuous
1. For a state in the past. 1. The past continuous expresses a
e.g. Poor Grandmamma was terrified. past activity that has duration.
2. For past time actions which are e.g. I met her while I was living in
completely finished. Paris.
e.g. He went and knocked on 2. The activity began before the
Grandma’s door. action expressed by the past simple.
3. For series of actions in the e.g. She was making coffee when we
past. arrived.
e.g. He stopped, he stared and then 3. It expresses an activity in
he said. progress before, and probably after,
a time in the past.
e.g. When I woke up the sun was
The result of the action shining.
Length of the period.
Scheme
4. The
formation of the past continuous
5. Exercises
5.2 Describe what the people in the picture were doing when Rick
came into the room.