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Grammar Form Was/were + present participle You were reading when I walked in. Were you studying when I called you? You were not working when I called you. The Past Continuous has 4 main uses/functions: Use 1 - an interrupted action in the past Here the Past Continuous is used to indicate a long action that was interrupted.
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Grammar explanation The past continuous and the past simple help us to show how two past actions or situations are connected. Past simple The past simple shows us that an action was in the past, not in the present. Regular past simple verbs have - ed at the end (e.g. called, played, arrived ).
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5. As an English teacher, I believe it's more correct to say 'While she was waiting' if we're talking about school grammar. According to Oxford Practical English Usage, the simple past tense can refer to an extended/longer action in 'simultaneous long actions'. i.e. one long + one long action e.g. John cooked supper while I watched TV. (or.
All about the past continuous (or past progressive) tense
We often use them with the past continuous to refer to background events: When the men were out working in the field, I helped with milking the cows, feeding the calves and the pigs. While he was working, he often listened to music. We can put clauses with as, when and while before or after the main clause.
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You use Past Continuous to emphasize the length of action in the past . They were arguing the whole evening. /emphasis on the length — the whole day/. She was relaxing from 6 pm to 9 pm yesterday. /emphasis on the length — from 6 pm to 9 pm/. You use Past Continuous for background description in a story .
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The Difference: When vs. While (English Grammar) What's the difference between the subordinate conjunctions when and while? When & While: The Short Answer In some sentences, you can use either without a great change in meaning. Generally, if you want to focus on an action that has a duration being in progress, use a while + a progressive tense.
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The past continuous, also known as past progressive, is used to talk about an action that was in progress, in a definite time in the past, when another action interrupted it. Here, the word WHEN is used to introduce that second action in the past. For instance: My cousin Olivia was shopping when her boyfriend called her up.
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It started raining while I was waiting for the bus. (past continuous) The phone always rings while I'm having a shower. (present continuous) We also use while with the present simple and past simple tenses: My wife walked the dog while I washed the car. [past simple] I'll tidy the house while you are at work. [present simple]
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Matt Ellis Updated on November 17, 2022 The past continuous tense, also known as the past progressive tense, describes ongoing actions in the past, such as I was writing my research paper all night. It uses the same construction as the present continuous tense except with the past tense of the verb to be.
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Here, the first action is in the past continuous tense. That means the action, making lunch, took place over a period of time. The main clause, "the phone rang" is in the simple past tense,.
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The past continuous tense is used to describe actions that began in the past and often continued for a short period of time after the action started. This tense describes actions or events that happened at a specific time in the past. These actions are usually no longer happening at the time the sentence is being said or written.
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The Past Continuous tense expresses action at a particular moment in the past. The action started before that moment but has not finished at that moment. For example, yesterday I watched a film on TV. The film started at 7pm and finished at 9pm.
Past continuous (when & while)
1 Answer Sorted by: 2 The second verb, to look should be in past progressive. It's about an action that was (or in this case was not) going on during another action. The first could go either way, depending on context. Is there some other activity going to be mentioned that is also located in time during the apple theft?
Past continuous (when & while)
1 I´m studying the use of while and when with simple past/past continuous. I´ve watched some videos about it, but I cannot fully understand when I should use "while" or "when" and if it would be okay to use when followed by past continuous as well as while followed by past simple. Some examples I doubt they sound natural:
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The past continuous is made from the past tense of the verb be and the -ing form of a verb: We use the past continuous to talk about the past: for something which happened before and after another action: The children were doing their homework when I got home. Compare: The children did their homework when (= after) I got home.