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    The document summarizes the uses of the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. The past simple is used to describe completed actions that happened at specific times or a series of completed actions. The past continuous describes actions that were ongoing or in progress at a specific time in the past or actions that were occurring over a period of time. It also describes interrupted actions, with the interrupting action using the past simple.

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    The document summarizes the uses of the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. The past simple is used to describe completed actions that happened at specific times or a series of completed actions. The past continuous describes actions that were ongoing or in progress at a specific time in the past or actions that were occurring over a period of time. It also describes interrupted actions, with the interrupting action using the past simple.

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    PAST SIMPLE VS PAST CONTINUOUS/ USES

    A. describing an action in progress happening at a specific moment in the past


    B. describing something that happened over a period of time
    C. describing an interrupted action; for the action that interrupts the other, we use the
    past simple
    D. Series of completed actions in the past
    E. Something that was true for some time in the past
    F. Completed action which happened at a specific time in the past

    Fill in the gaps with the categories from the box below.

    PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOUS

    ______________________________________ ______________________________________
    ______________________________________ ______________________________________

    1. Karen went to a party, made a new friend and 1. At 12 o’clock yesterday Donald Trump
    then returned home in time for dinner. was playing golf.

    _______________________________________ _______________________________________
    _______________________________________ _______________________________________

    2. The students were taking extra English


    2. Karen played the violin when she was younger. lessons before they sat their PET exam in
    May.

    _______________________________________ _______________________________________
    _______________________________________ _______________________________________

    3. Karen read an interesting book yesterday 3. The children were having a picnic in the
    evening. park when the thunderstorm started.

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