Past continuous vs Past simple

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.