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PAST SIMPLE / PAST CONTINUOUS

PAST SIMPLE FORM : Regular verbs: <-ed>: walk – walked Irregular verbs: no rules: send – sent Interrogative / Negative: auxliliary verb: did She came to the party Did she come to the party? She didn’ t come to the party. USE :

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PAST SIMPLE / PAST CONTINUOUS

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  1. PAST SIMPLE FORM: Regular verbs: <-ed>: walk – walked Irregular verbs: no rules: send – sent Interrogative / Negative: auxliliary verb: did She came to the party Did she come to the party? She didn’ t come to the party. USE: Punctual events in the past. We considered the action finished. “Yesterday, I watched a film on TV. I liked it quite a lot.” Consecutive actions. “Yesterday evening, I arrived home, I had a shower and then, I had dinner” A punctual past event that interrupts... “Last night, the lights went off PAST CONTINUOUS FORM: was / were + -ing: was sending / were walking Interrogative / Negative: auxliliary verb:was/were She was coming to the party Was she coming to the party? She wasn’ t coming to the party. USE: Past action in progress. We consider the action in the middle. “Yesterday evening at 6.00, I was watching a film on TV. It was very interesting.” Parallel actions. “Yesterday evening, I was having a shower while my wife was having dinner” ...a past action in progress when I was watching TV” PAST SIMPLE / PAST CONTINUOUS

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