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Past Tense Duel: Past Simple vs Past Continuous

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Choose the correct past form.

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Choose the correct past form.

by Mari Carmen
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She _______ homework when the power outage happened.

2

I _______ the movie when you called.

3

They _______ to the party when it started to rain.

4

He _______ coffee every morning.

5

We _______ the cake when the guests arrived.

6

She _______ already when the train arrived.

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What _______ you _______ when I called?

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While he _______, the lights went out.

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She _______ when the phone rang yesterday.

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We _______ our lessons when the bell rang.

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The past continuous describes an ongoing action when another event occurred.

Past continuous = ongoing action in the past; the phone call interrupted it.

Ongoing action in the past interrupted by another event.

Habit in the past is often simple past.

Past continuous shows ongoing action at a specific past moment.

Past perfect before the past moment expresses a prior action.

Question uses past continuous to describe two simultaneous past actions.

Two past actions; the first is ongoing.

Past continuous to show an ongoing past action interrupted by phone call.

Ongoing action in the past at the moment the bell rang.

 
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