COMPARATIVE PROCESS

Past Continuous

Simple past

VS

Recounts specific events in the past.

It talks about things or events that lasted a certain time.

Use the past continuous to indicate that a longer action in the past was interrupted.

The simple past refers to a specific action that began and ended in the past. This means that the action has already finished.

While we were having the picnic, it started to rain.

Jhon lived in CDMX in 1985.

The past simple can also be used to talk about habitual actions.

The past continuous is interrupted by a shorter action in the simple past.

I was sitting at my desk at work. when the felt the door.

I often brought my lunch to school.

The past continuous with two actions in the same sentence, it expresses the idea that both actions were happening at the same time

the simple past to refer to when something happened at an indeterminate time.

People lived in caves a long time ago..

I bought this painting when we were visiting New York.

Other examples in negative and interrogative form

Other examples in negative and interrogative form

I didn't walk home last night.

I wasn't paying attention while I was writing the letter

Did you work very hard last week?

What were you doing while you were waiting?