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PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOS USES, RULES, EXAMPLES
SIMPLE PAST
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The "simple past" is used to speak of an action that ended in a time prior to the current one. The duration is not relevant. The time in which the action will be situated can be the recent past or the distant past.
The "simple past" is always used to refer to when something happened, so it is associated with certain time expressions that indicate:
a specified time: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago
an indeterminate time: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago People lived in caves a long time ago.
frequency: often, sometimes, always
PAST CONTINUOS
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The "past continuous" describes actions or events situated in a time prior to the present, whose beginning is situated in the past and which has not yet concluded at the moment of speaking. In other words, it expresses an incomplete or unfinished action from the past.
The "past continuous" of any verb is made up of two parts: the past of the verb "to be" (was / were) and the stem of the main verb + ing.
Note: with verbs that are not usually conjugated in "past continuous" the "simple past" is normally used.
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