Sports & Fitness — C1 English Lesson

📝Grammar: 5A: Past tenses - simple, continuous, perfect

Use the **past simple** for finished past actions — things that started and ended in the past. It also describes repeated past habits, like a strict regimen of dawn runs. Use the **past continuous** for an action in progress at a specific past moment. Never use it with non-action verbs such as want, need, or know. When two past actions meet, the **past continuous** gives the background and the **past simple** gives the interrupting event. They are usually linked by when or as. Use while with the **past continuous** for two actions happening at the same time. The **past continuous** also ope