Simple past and past continuous
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We often use ... before the simple past and while before the past continuous when the tenses are in the same sentence.
when
We use the ... to talk about a completed action in the past.
simple past
We use the ... to talk about an activity that was in progress at a certain time in the past.
past continuous
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