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PAST SIMPLE: QUESTION AND NEGATIVE

The past simple question forms are the same for all persons (I, you, he, she, etc) and all verbs:

Did Subject Infinitive
DID I Leave?
HE Go?
SHE Stay?
IT
WE
YOU
THEY

The past simple negative forms are the same for all persons and all verbs:

Subject Did not/didn´t Infinitive
I DID NOT Leave
HE DIDN´T Go
SHE Stay
IT
WE
YOU
THEY

PAST CONTINUOUS

It is used to describe a past action at some point between its beginning and its end. The past
continuous is often interrupted by the past simple:

I was having a bath when the phone rang

I was listening to the radio when I had an idea

USED TO+ VERB

It is used to express:

1) Regularly action in the past, that in present doesn´t exist anymore
I used to go to Ireland every summer
2) Action that happened or existed frequently
There used to be a cinema here
3) Something that was true and now it is not true
People didn´t use to live as long as they do now

Past sentences withwhile y when (Time Markers)

The past continuous prepares the scene for another action. The structure is the following one:

Past continuous+ when+ past simple