Past simple and continuous
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The document contrasts the past simple and past continuous tenses through examples of pictures. It shows situations where an ongoing or continuous action in the past (expressed using the past continuous) was interrupted by another action that occurred at the same time (expressed using the past simple). The conclusion notes that the past continuous can be used to describe a long action in the past that is interrupted by another action.
Past simple and continuous
- 2. Make sentences about these pictures: I was dreaming about food when an apple fell on my head.
- 3. The man... was cleaning the window when aliens landed in the garden.
- 4. The girl was walking under the ladder when some paint fell on her.
- 5. The little dog... stole the big dog’s bone while it was sleeping.
- 6. The boys were sleeping on the beach when the tide came in.
- 7. The man’s wig came off when he was diving into the pool.
- 8. past continuous past simple a long action is interrupted by another action CONCLUSION