PAST SIMPLE VS PAST CONTINUOUS

What’s the difference between the past simple and the past continious?

• They are the same

• The past continuous is for an action that started in the past and continues in the present

• The one is to describe action in the past, and the other for past continuous action

• The past simple is to describe an action of the past and continuous for an action that started in the present and continuous.

————— to the park on Sunday

• I went

• I was going

I was walking to the station when I met John.

• Past Simple ?

• Past continuous ?

When__________to the party ?

• Did you go

• We’re you going

Is the past simple used principaly to describe events in the past

• Yes

• No

When I was 12 _____________

• I was very shy

• I was being very shy

___________the other one, didn’t you ?

• You were preferring

• You preferred

Is the past continuous made from past tense of the verb be and the –ing ?

• Yes

• No

We use_______for something which happened before and after another action

• Past simple ?

• Past continuous?

Which verb describes a longer action or situation

• Past continuous ?

• Past simple ?