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1 Talking about past events and situations:

We use the past simple:

• when we are talking about an event that happened at a particular time in the past

We arrived home before dark
The film started at seven thirty.

• when we are talking about something that continued for some time in the past

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Grammar Rules - Past Tense

We use the past simple to talk about the main events and key stages in a story. In regular verbs we make the past simple by adding -ed to the verb. The other tenses are used to add detail to the story to make it more interesting.

We use the past continuous to give background information on ( Read more... )