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Difference between simple past and past continuous: (She ate / She was eating)

• Simple past: completed action; past continuous: action in progress.

• Simple past: action in progress; past continuous: completed action.

• Simple past: habitual action; past continuous: repeated action.

• Simple past: describes a future; past continuous: describes a present.

Use a past continuous time adverb: (yesterday, we, play)

• Yesterday, we were playing soccer.

• Yesterday, we played.

• Yesterday, we played.

• Yesterday, we were playing.

Complete the sentence: (They _______ (speak) when the phone rang)

• spoke

• would speak

• were speaking

• would have spoken

Transform to past continuous: (You, run)

• You have run.

• You will run.

• You were running.

• You ran.

Use a time adverb: (last week, I, study)

• Last week, I will study.

• Last week, I studying.

• Last week, I studied.

• Last week, I study.

Complete: (While she _______ (cooking), he _______ (reading) a book)

• cooked, read

• cooking, reading

• cooks, reads

• was cooking, was reading

Form a sentence in the past continuous: (they, dance)

• They dance.

• They are dancing.

• They were dancing.

• They danced.

Transform to past continuous: (We, play)

• We were playing.

• We were playing soccer.

• We used to play.

• We played.

Complete: (They _______ (play) when it started to rain)

• played

• would play

• playing

• were playing

Form a sentence in the past continuous: (she, work)

• She worked

• She was working.

• She works

• She was at work