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SIMPLE PAST AND PAST CONTINUOUS - Coggle Diagram
SIMPLE PAST AND PAST CONTINUOUS
What is it?
is the verb tense used in the English language to narrate events that occurred at a specific time in the past. It corresponds in its meaning to the simple perfect past tense in Spanish.**
Forming a past simple
past simple
Past simple
Regularverbs
verb+ed
He worked late last night.
Irregularverbs
Unique past tense
I bought a new t-shirt
Yesterday
Forming a past continuous
past continuos
Allverbs
verb+ed
was/were+verb+ ing
He was working last night.
I was buying a t-shirt when
I saw her yesterday
what it serves us
The simple past is used to speak of a concrete action that began and ended in the past. In this case it is equivalent to the Spanish indefinite past tense. Generally, we use it with time adverbs like "last year", "yesterday", "last night"