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Are the grammatical structures that you use when telling a story, or talking about situations and activities which happened at a defined past time.

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Narrative tenses are verb tenses that are used to talk about the past. You can often find them in stories, textbooks, spoken accounts and in descriptions of past events.

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The main difference between past simple and past continuous is in their use . The past simple of english verbs indicates past actions that have already ended. But when is the past continuous used? This verb tense is used to talk about actions that were in progress at a specific point in the past.

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To describe actions in progress at a certain time in the past.

Yesterdat at 10:00 pm I was sleeping.

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To express a completed action at a definite time in the past.

When I was little we lived in another village.

To express past habits.

I woke up very late at weekends when I was a teenager.

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Past simple
opened, looked, walked, was

Past continuous
were blowing