The document provides a comparison of the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It lists common time words used with the past simple tense in the first column and past continuous tense in the second column. It then provides examples of affirmative and negative sentences using both tenses, showing how the verbs, pronouns, and auxiliary verbs differ depending on which past tense is being used.
The document provides a comparison of the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It lists common time words used with the past simple tense in the first column and past continuous tense in the second column. It then provides examples of affirmative and negative sentences using both tenses, showing how the verbs, pronouns, and auxiliary verbs differ depending on which past tense is being used.
The document provides a comparison of the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It lists common time words used with the past simple tense in the first column and past continuous tense in the second column. It then provides examples of affirmative and negative sentences using both tenses, showing how the verbs, pronouns, and auxiliary verbs differ depending on which past tense is being used.
The document provides a comparison of the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It lists common time words used with the past simple tense in the first column and past continuous tense in the second column. It then provides examples of affirmative and negative sentences using both tenses, showing how the verbs, pronouns, and auxiliary verbs differ depending on which past tense is being used.
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2nd column verb I was playing
You were playing I played/went He/She/It was playing You typed/became We were playing He/She/It looked/rang You were playing We added/wrote They were playing You fixed/sang They dropped/hit Was I looking? 1st column verb Were you writing? Was he/she/it singing? Did I play/go? Were we fixing? Did you type/become? Were you adding? Did he/she/it look/ring? Were they dropping? Did we add/write? Did you fix/sing? Did they drop/hit? I wasn’t typing You weren’t playing 1st column verb He/She/It wasn’t singing We weren’t looking I didn’t play/go. You weren’t doing You didn’t type/become. They weren’t jumping He/She/It didn’t look/read. We didn’t add/write. You didn’t fix/sing. They didn’t drop/hit.