Unit 9 Page 87 Lesson A2

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1. Grammar. Past continuous statements.

Use the past continuous to set the background for a story or tell about events in progress in the past.

Use the simple past for completed actions in the past.

I was talking to a woman, and I missed my stop. I wasn’t paying attention.

We were trying to look cool, and we walked into a glass door. We weren’t looking.

A friend of mine deleted all my files when she was using my computer. When my friend was using my computer, she deleted all my files.