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Past simple and past continuous.

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Past simple.

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We use these terms to talk about Finnish actions.

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We form the past simple of regular verb by adding "-ed to the infinitive.

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For example, play, play it.

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Walk, walk it.

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Stop, stop it.

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There are some verbs that have a special past simple form and you have to study them by heart.

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They are the irregular verbs.

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For example, be, was, were, do, did, have, had, break, broke.

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Past Continuous

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We use distance to express the duration of an action in the past.

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We form the past continuous of any verb with the passive verb to be was word and the main verb plus i-n-g.

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For example, he was watching, you were reading.

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We can use both tenses in the same sentence to show that one of the action is interrupted by another.

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The long action past continuous is interrupted by a sub-factor past simple.

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For example, I was reading a book when my sister arrived.

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I was watching TV when the phone rang.