151 过去完成时和过去完成进行时的区别 What's the Difference? PAST Continuous & PAST PERFECT Continuous

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Oh hey there I'm Emma from mmmEnglish! Today's grammar lesson is an exciting one, we're gonna practise the grammar that you need to accurately tell stories in English.

We'll focus on two important past tenses, the past continuous and the past perfect continuous. Now what I really want to do is help you to understand the difference between these two tenses, when should you use the past continuous and when should you use the past perfect continuous?

That way we can help you to tell stories accurately and improve your English grammar and as usual if you watch the lesson through, I've got some questions to help you test your skills and to practise what you learn during this lesson which is super important. So let's dive in!

So like I said, let's dive straight in. Why do we use the past continuous?

We use it to say that an action was in progress at a precise moment in the past. What were you doing at 3pm on Friday?

I was washing my hair. Now this tense is often used with the past simple tense to talk about two past actions that took place at the same time.

Like I washed my hair. And the hot water ran out.

So the longer action goes in the past continuous tense and it's interrupted by the short action in the past simple. I was washing my hair when the water ran out.

You're probably quite familiar with the structure of past continuous sentences in English, right? In all continuous tenses, the auxiliary verb be is essential, right?

In the past continuous, our auxiliary verb be becomes was or were depending on the subject. I was running.

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