Did you live abroad?
we often use phrases with ago with the past tense
for something that happened before and after a particular time
Did she play tennis when she was younger?
something that happened once in the past
We often use the past continuous and the past simple tense together. When this happens, the past continuous describes a longer, ‘background’ action or situation and the past simple describes the action or events.
I was practising every day, three times a day.
something that was true for some time in the past
My head was aching.
When I was a boy I walked a mile to school every day.
call >> called; like >> liked; want >> wanted; work >> worked
But there are a lot of irregular past tenses in English. Here are the most common irregular verbs in English, with their past tenses:
The most common use of the past continuous tense is to talk about something that was happening around a particular time in the past
With most verbs the past tense is formed by adding -ed
The children were growing up quickly.
something that happened again and again in the past
for something that was happening again and again:
Often, the ‘action’ described by the past simple tense interrupts the ‘situation’ described by the past continuous tense
to show that something continued for some time
I lived abroad for ten years.
for something which continued before and after another action
