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past |
all future tenses explained separately;
to download a complete explanation of all future tenses in Word format, please click here to download a complete explanation of all other tenses in Word format, please click here |
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simple: | progressive: | |||||||||||||||
use: | simple statements and actions that happened and ended in the past there is no relation to the present; mostly it is important when it happened (the action itself is important)
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background information and longer actions that happened and ended in the past there is no relation to the present; (the action is not so important)
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formation: | 2nd form
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was/were + “ing”-Form
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example: | He went to the store and bought a book | It was raining, the wind was blowing heavily and the waves were making a loud noise.
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time indicators: |
yesterday, last week/month/year, in 1983, when I was young...
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note: |
USE OF PAST SIMPLE AND PAST PROGRESSIVE IN CONTEXT | |||||||||||||||
For actions
that happened one after another you use only
PAST SIMPLE: For actions that happened simultaneously at the same time
you use only PAST PROGRESSIVE: If a short action interrupts a longer action, you use
PAST SIMPLE for the short action, and
PAST PROGRESSIVE for the longer action: |
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