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What is the difference between simple past and present continuous?
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What is the difference between simple past and present continuous?

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Answer: We use the simple past tense to talk about finished actions because they happened in the past.

We use the present continuous tense to talk about actions that are not finished, because they are happening at the moment of speaking or they are going to happen in the future.

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