GRAMMAR REVIEW 2

Past simple and past continuous

Study these examples.

1.Our company was sellingproducts online long before all its competitors.

(past continuous)

2.We were trying to produce a new design when suddenly we hada great idea.

(past continuous) (past simple)

3.Last year, we spent a lot on advertising and so attracted new customers

(past simple) (past simple)

We use the past continuous:

· to talk about something that that was going on at a particular time in

The past, as in sentence 1.

· to describe an action which was already in progress when something

Else happened, as in sentence 2.

· to talk about actions or events that we see as completed, as in sentence

I. Complete the story below with the past simple or past continuous forms of

Verbs in brackets.

Mr Fry – Keep me posted.

In the early 1970s, Art Fry, a research scientist, had the idea for Post-it Notes while he was singing in his local church choir. At the time he …….. (mark) the correct pages in his hymn book with small species of paper. The problem was they often …….. (fall) out and he …….. (lose) his place.

At the same time, Dr Spenser Silver, a colleague of Mr Fry’s at the American company 3M, …….. (do) research into adhesives in the Central Research Department. One day when Fry …….. (use) some of a new adhesive on the edge of a piece of paper, he found that it …….. (stay) where he put it. He also found he could move it to another position without damaging his book – a perfect bookmark. A little later he …….. (send) to a colleague. A new way of communicating and organising information began. Post-its have now become an essential part of office life.

READING

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