Past Simple x Past Progressive
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Past Simple Used with finished states, actions and habits in the past Last year you were in Berlin
Used with adjectives to identify feelings in the past Emma and Anna were happy
Series of completed actions in the past He watched TV, studied English and played games
past simple now
Past Progressive It describes an action that was in progress at the moment in the past. She was taking a shower at 8h30 am
Last night they were dancing together
With past simple to talk about a finished action that happened while another activity was in progress He was sleeping when the telephone rang
past progressive now
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Past Simple Add d, ed or ied to all regular verbs in affirmatives I / you / we / they lived in Brazil. he / she / it
Use didn’t with the verbs in negatives I / you / we / they he / she / it
didn’t like football.
Use did with the verbs in interrogatives Did
I / you / we / they he / she / it
enjoy the beach?
Past Progressive to be + verb ING I / he / she / it was sleeping at 6am yesterday. you / we / they were
to be + not + verb ING I / he / she / it wasn’t working 3 days ago. you / we / they weren’t
to be + noun + verb ING Was I / he / she / it Were you / we / they
shopping last week?
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Base form
Past simple
Past participle
be
was/were
been
celebrate
celebrated
celebrated
climb
climbed
climbed
find
found
found
fish
fished
fished
go
went
gone
invite
invited
invited
leave
left
left
lock
locked
locked
put
put
put
run
ran
run
scream
screamed
screamed
see
saw
seen
sink
sank
sunk
spend
spent
spent
start
started
started
swim
swan
swun
take
took
taken
want
wanted
wanted
work
worked
worked
How identify a regular verb Regular verbs Irregular verbs
1
It is added –ed, -d or –ied to the verb
2
past past = simple participle
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