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Podcast: Food & Cooking
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📝Grammar: 5A: Past tenses - simple, continuous, perfect
**Past simple** is for finished actions in the past. *I cooked a delicious soup yesterday.* The action finished yesterday. **Past continuous** is for an action in progress at a past time. *I was cooking soup at seven o'clock.* At that time, the action was still happening. We often use them together. *I was cooking soup when my friend called.* The long action **was cooking** was interrupted by the short action **called**. **Past perfect** (**had** + past participle) is for the earlier of two past actions. *When I arrived, they had eaten the sweet dessert.* They ate it before I arrived.
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This is a A2 Elementary (A2) English lesson from Muse English's daily series on 2026-10-03.
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