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    This document compares and contrasts the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It provides the affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms for each, examples of usage, common clue words that indicate each tense, and explains that the past simple is used for completed actions and habits in the past while the past continuous is used for incomplete, interrupted, or simultaneous past actions.

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    This document compares and contrasts the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It provides the affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms for each, examples of usage, common clue words that indicate each tense, and explains that the past simple is used for completed actions and habits in the past while the past continuous is used for incomplete, interrupted, or simultaneous past actions.

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    PAST

    PAST CONTINUOUS
    SIMPLE

    FORM FORM
    AF: SUJ + VERB (-d/-ed/-ied OR irreg. form) AF: SUJETO + WAS/WERE + VERBO -ING
    NEG: SUJETO + DID NOT + VERBO NEG: SUJ + WASN'T/WEREN'T + V-ING
    INT: DID + SUJETO + VERBO INT: WAS/WERE + SUJETO + VERBO -ING

    EXAMPLES
    She danced ballet
    EXAMPLES
    She was dancing ballet
    She didn't dance ballet
    She wasn't dancing ballet
    Did she dance ballet?
    Was she dancing ballet?
    USE USE
    1) COMPLETED ACTION
    1) INCOMPLETE/INTERRUPTED
    2) HABITS AND FACTS IN
    ACTIONS
    THE PAST
    2) SIMULTANEOUS ACTIONS (two
    *STATIVE V. (like, love, seem, hate,
    actions happen at the same time)
    prefer, want, need, enjoy, understand).

    CLUE WORDS CLUE WORDS


    Yesterday The other day While
    The day before yesterday As
    Last (week, day, month, year) At that time
    Ago In 1987 When At 8.30 pm
    when the

    PRESENT
    I was taking a phone
    shower rang

    PAST FUTURE
    P. CONT. P. SIMP.

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