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    The document summarizes the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It provides examples of each tense used with different verbs and questions. It explains that the past simple is used for completed actions and storytelling, while the past continuous is used for actions that were ongoing at a specific time in the past or interrupted actions. It lists common time expressions used with each tense.

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    PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOUS

    + končnica -ed pri pravilnih glagolih, 2. +, ? WAS / WERE + ing


    oblika pri nepravilnih glagolih -WASN'T, WEREN'T + ing
    ? DID
    -DIDN'T

    + They played hockey yesterday. + They were wearing hats yesterday.


    ?Did they play hockey yesterday? - Yes, they ? Were they wearing hats yesterday? –Yes, they
    did. / No, they didn't. were. / No, they weren't.
    -They didn't play hockey yesterday. -They weren't wearing hats yesterday.
    ? When did they play hockey? – Yesterday. ? What were they wearing yesterday? – Hats.

    + Tom bought a book yesterday. + Tom was watching TV at 7 p.m. yesterday.


    ? Did Tom buy a book yesterday? – Yes, he ? Was Tom watching TV at 7 p.m. yesterday? –
    did. / No, he didn't. Yes, he was. / No, he wasn't.
    -Tom didn't buy a book yesterday. -Tom wasn't watching TV at 7 p.m. yesterday.
    ? What did Tom buy yesterday? – A book. ? Who was watching TV at 7 p.m. yesterday? –
    Tom.

    USE : USE:
    We use the Past Simple Tense: We use the Past Continuous Tense:
    - to talk about a completed action in the - to talk about something that was going
    past: on at a particular time in the past:
    At 3 o'clock last night the wind was
    Jane made a cake yesteday.
    blowing and it was raining heavily.

    - to tell people about past events or to - for temporary situations in the past:
    tell stories: We were meeting in the gym twice a week.

    The man unlocked the door quietly, went into - with Past Simple for interrupted actions
    the room and turned on the light. (=prekinjena dejanja):

    TIME EXPRESSIONS: yesterday, last week, two They were having lunch the door suddenly
    years ago, in 2008, … opened.

    TIME EXPRESSIONS: as, when, while, this time


    last week, at 5 PM yesterday, all last night, …

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