past Continous VS past perfect
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Created on August 21, 2021
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Past Continous
When do we use it?
To set the scence in a story- Last night I was walking home and listening to a podcast when...
For actions in progress in the past that are interrupted by other actions- When she opened the door, we were talking about her.
How do we form it?
Pronoun + was/were + verb+ ing
I was walking in the forest last night when I saw you.
You were talking to my mother last night when I called you.
Past Perfect
When do we use it?
To talk about earlier events and experiences, or single actions completed earlier in the past.- When she opened the door, he had already left.
To say how much or how many we had done of something earlier in the past.-How many hours had he slept when you woke him up?
With stative verbs to talk about states or situations that had started earlier in the past. We often use how long, for or since, always, etc.-The day Anne died, they had been married for 48 years
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How do we form it?
Pronoun + had been + verb +ed / past participate
He told me he had always loved me
When she opened the door, he had already left.