This document provides examples and explanations of simple past and past continuous verb tenses in English. It demonstrates how to form the past continuous using was/were and the -ing form of the verb, and how to make it negative using wasn't/weren't. Examples of regular and irregular simple past verbs are also given. Sample sentences illustrate using the past continuous and simple past tenses to describe actions happening at the same time or sequentially in the past.

1. Simple past
Past continuous

2. Past continuous
Verb to be + main verb + ing
I was playing
You were playing
He was playing
She was playing
It was playing
We were playing
They were playing

3. Past continuous negative
Was + not = wasn’t
Were + not = weren’t

4. Past simple
 Regular Verbs irregular verbs
 add change
 Verb + d go = went
 Verb + ed find = found
 verb + c+ed break = broke
 Verb “y” ied think = thought

5. Affirmative
I wrote a book
Sara studied laws

6. Negative
I didn’t write a book.
Sara didn’t study laws.

7. PAST CONTINUOUS - SIMPLE PAST
I was eating when the phone rang.
I was watching a really good movie, but I fell asleep before the end.
“While I was walking down the street, I found some money”
I was talking to my friend when my cell pone died”