I was practising every day, three times a day.
something that happened once in the past
for something that happened before and after a particular time
With most verbs the past tense is formed by adding -ed
for something which continued before and after another action
Did she play tennis when she was younger?
The most common use of the past continuous tense is to talk about something that was happening around a particular time in the past
We often use the past continuous and the past simple tense together. When this happens, the past continuous describes a longer, ‘background’ action or situation and the past simple describes the action or events.
something that was true for some time in the past
Did you live abroad?
something that happened again and again in the past
When I was a boy I walked a mile to school every day.
My head was aching.
I lived abroad for ten years.
to show that something continued for some time
The children were growing up quickly.
call >> called; like >> liked; want >> wanted; work >> worked
for something that was happening again and again:
But there are a lot of irregular past tenses in English. Here are the most common irregular verbs in English, with their past tenses:
we often use phrases with ago with the past tense
Often, the ‘action’ described by the past simple tense interrupts the ‘situation’ described by the past continuous tense
