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Welcome to English grammar spot, this lesson
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is about the past simple and the past continuous.
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Take a look at these sentences:
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I watched the telly last night.
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I was watching the telly last night.
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The first sentences contains a past simple,
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the second sentence is in the past continuous.
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In this lesson I'm going to show you how to form a past simple
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and how to form a past continuous and
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when to use past simple and
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when to use a past continuous and more important
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the difference between the two. First we are going to take a look at how to form
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these past tenses. As you might know
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in the English language we have regular
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and irregular verbs. And this this is important to remember
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when forming a past simple. To make a past simple
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for the regular verbs, we use the
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base form of the verb and add 'ed.''
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For example: He worked late last night
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The irregular verbs
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have their own and unique past tense so you need to study those carefully.
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I bought a new t-shirt yesterday.
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The infinitive form of the verb bought is to buy.
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With the past continuous
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we do not need to worry about regular and
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irregular verbs. Because all verbs that take a past continous
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whether they're regular or irregular,
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are formed by using
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was or were, the past tenses of the verb 'to be',
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and the base form of the verb and '-ing.'
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For example: He was working last night
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I was buying a t-shirt, when I saw her yesterday.
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Now let's have a look at how to use a past simple
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and how to use a past continuous and how to keep them apart.
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we use a past simple for activities
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that were finished in the past, we usually use
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a time frame: He worked late last night.
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Here last night is waht we consider
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timeframe. I bought a new T-shirt yesterday
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Here yesterday
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is a timeframe. A past continuous
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is used for activities started and finished in the past,
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but we want emphasized duration:
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so we want to show the other person the other listener
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or reader that the action lasted for quite some time.
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For example: He was working all
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night so we want emphasize that it lated
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the entire night. we also use past continuous form for an
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ongoing action in the past interrupted by a sudden event.
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For example I was buying a t-shirt
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when I ran into her so I was
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doing something and then suddenly a friend came up to me
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that's when I ran into her. Please note
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that for the interruption we use a simple
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so we often find a past continuous
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and a past simple in the same sentence with the
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past continuous showing us that it was a continuing
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activity and the past simple showing
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the interruption of that activity. Thank you
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