{"id":6364,"date":"2015-07-21T21:16:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T20:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/?page_id=6364"},"modified":"2017-03-13T21:44:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:44:12","slug":"simple-past-past-progressive-gegenuberstellung-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/simple-past-past-progressive-gegenuberstellung-2\/","title":{"rendered":"simple past - past progressive - difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/simple-past-present-perfect-unterschied\/\"><button> difference simple past \u2013 present perfect<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/simple-past-past-perfect-gegenuberstellung-2\/\"><button>difference simple past \u2013 past perfect <\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Different usage of the simple past and the past progressive<\/h1>\n<h2>past progressive<\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The <em>past progressive<\/em> on its own refers to an action in the past whose course lasted an indefinite amount of time. The implication being that noting noteworthy happened.<\/p>\n<p><em>for example: Yesterday I was watching TV. ( nothing special was on)<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>the simple past<\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The <em>simple past<\/em> refers to an action that took place at a certain point in time in the past.<\/p>\n<p><em>for example: Yesterday I saw a great John Wayne movie on TV. It was awesome.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>simple past - past progressive - difference<\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The <em>past progressive<\/em> is mostly used in connection with the <em>simple past<\/em> In this context, two actions take place at the same time in the past, one of which takes longer, the other is shorter. The <em>shorter<\/em> one interupts the <em>longer one<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>for example: When I was watching TV, somebody rang at the door.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/past-progressive-simple-past.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6368 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/past-progressive-simple-past.png\" alt=\"past progressive - simple past\" width=\"682\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/past-progressive-simple-past.png 682w, https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/past-progressive-simple-past-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/past-progressive-simple-past-624x429.png 624w, https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/past-progressive-simple-past-20x14.png 20w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>\u00dcbungen simple past &#8211; past progressive &#8211; Gegen\u00fcberstellung<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/simple-past-past-progressive-gegenuberstellung\/\"><button>exercises simple past - past progressive - contrast <\/button><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unterschied simple past &#8211; present perfect Unterschied simple past &#8211; past perfect Unterschied im Gebrauch des simple past und des past progressive past progressive Das past progressive f\u00fcr sich alleine beschreibt einen Vorgang in der Vergangenheit, der \u00fcber einen unbestimmten Zeitraum abgelaufen ist. Der Unterton ist, dass dabei nichts besonderes vorgekommen ist. zum Beispiel: Yesterday [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7013,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6364\/revisions\/7013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}