Past continuous vs Past simple

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• Past Continuous vs Past Simple

• Past Continuous

• Past Simple

• - For speak about longer actions in the past.

• - Past actions happening one after another.

• Example: Elissa was working late at the office.

• Example: She quickly rain into the cementary and hid there

• -Actions that happend in that same moment in the past.

• Example: I was walking and I was speaking.

• - It is for once in the past and shorter action.

• Example: She asked for help.

• Tenses form (Afirmative, negative and interrogative): (+)Subject+was/were+"verbing" (-)Subject+wasn't/weren't+"verbing" (?) Wh-/How+was/were+subject+"Verbing" Was for 1° person and were 3° person.

• Tenses form (Afirmative, negative and interrogative): (+)Subject+regular verb (past) (-)Subject+didn't+regular verb (?) Wh-/How+did+subject+regular verb.

• Keywords: while, when, as.

• Keywords: Last, ago, when, days and dates.

• -Happened interruptions, the shorter actions interrups the longer actions.