A2 · ElementaryGrammar learning path
Past actions and past habits
Learn to describe both what happened and what life was regularly like. Start with past simple and past continuous for events and background, then add used to for habits and states that have changed.
2 lessons 11 exercises
What you will learn
- Choose past simple or past continuous in a narrative.
- Use when and while to relate past actions.
- Form used to in statements, negatives, and questions and distinguish it from would.
Before you start
- Know basic past-simple forms.
Lessons in this path
- 1Past Simple and Past Continuous
Contrasts completed past events with background actions in progress, including when/while, narratives, stative verbs, and speaker focus.
- 2Used to (Past Habits and States)
Adds used to for discontinued past habits and states, contrasting it with would, be/get used to, still, and the past simple.