Name: Past simple and past continuous - 6 Minute Grammar
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Present continuous

Rob Me, Emma In today's program, we're talking about the past.

Yes, we'll lick it when we use each tense, we'll show you how to form the positive negative and question forms of each one on Dhe, as usual, will finish with a quiz them first.

So we use the past simple for completed actions in the past and we have the past simple of the verb See, which is the irregular form Saw Onda.

As we know, you just have to learn the irregular verbs.

But the good news is that lots of herbs are regular on dhe to make them into the past.

You just at e on d d to the infinitive like this.

Hundreds of passengers jumped into the sea jump jumped simple to make past simple negatives, we add, didn't to the infinitive like this Sandra Bullock didn't win an Oscar for gravity.

Plus the infinitive on the short answers are Yes, plus subject.

Simple for completed actions in the past.

Now, to talk about past activities, we can use the past continuous.

Now we can use the past continuous to talk about an activity that was already happening when something else happened.

Dad was cooking dinner when the police arrived.

When the officers came into the living room.

Think about one activity interrupting the other.

The activity that was already happening is in the past continuous.

Dad was cooking dinner, and the activity that interrupted it is in the past simple.

The police arrived, so you can put the past simple and continuous together to talk about activities and actions that happened one on top of another.

To make the past continuous, it's waas or were plus an I N g verb.

The Children were watching TV Now to make the negative past continuous, you just put, wasn't or weren't in front of the I N g verb like this.

The baby wasn't sleeping, the Children weren't playing.

Games wasn't sleeping on, weren't playing, wasn't and weren't are short forms of was not on Dhe were not now for past continuous questions.

It WAAS or were with the subject plus and I n g verb.

And I'm going to demonstrate this by testing new on the examples we had before Rob was Mom cooking dinner?

For past continuous short answers, it's yes plus subject, plus Waas or no plus subject.

Plus wasn't to BBC learning english dot com.

I'm going to say a sentence, and you have to choose the right verb form to go in the gap.

Cate Blanchett on Oscar for best actress is it I was winning or be one.

Cate Blanchett's on Oscar for best actress It's B.

Cate Blanchett won an Oscar for best actress, and he is the final question ready when the police dad was cooking dinner.

When the police dad was cooking dinner when the police arrived, That was cooking dinner, huh?