The document discusses quantifiers and the past continuous tense in English. It explains that quantifiers express quantity and include words like some, any, much, many, a little, a few. The past continuous tense is used to describe an action that was ongoing or in progress at a specific time in the past. It provides examples of how to use quantifiers correctly and when to use the past continuous versus the past simple tense.

1. Quantifiers and Past Continuous

8. Past Continuous/Past Simple Tense (tiempo verbal) Time expression Use Form Examples Affirmative Examples: Negatives Examples Interrogatives Past Continuous while . an action happened in the middle of another action someone was doing sth. at a certain time (in the past) - you do not know whether it was finished or not was/were + infinitive + -ing I was working. He was working I was going. You were going. I wasn't working. He wasn't working I wasn't going. You weren't going. Was I working? Was he working? Was I going? Were you going? Simple Past or Past Simple last ... ... ago in 1990 yesterday action took place in the past, mostly connected with an expression of time (no connection to the present) regular: infinitive + -ed Irregular: I worked. He worked. I went. He went. I didn't work. He didn't work. I didn't go. He didn't go. Did I work? Did he work? Did I go? Did he go?