Past tense (mind the exceptions!)   Past Simple - Formation: Past Progressive - Formation: person + 2nd form of the verb person + past form of “to be” + infinitive + “-ing” Past Simple - Conjugation: Past Progressive - Conjugation: I exercised I was exercising You exercised You were exercising He, she, it exercised He, she, it was exercising We exercised We were exercising You exercised You were exercising They exercised They were exercising   Past Simple - Usage: Past Progressive - Usage: Expresses that an action took place at a definite time in the past (complete actions) and is used to express that one event happened after another,   Expresses that somebody was in the middle of an action at a certain time, indicates a past action in progress, when a new event happened and is used for actions in progress simultaneously     (c) www.english-tenses.com   no guarantee can be taken for the correctness of all files.                                 Learn English tenses (simple and continuous forms) for free: present, past, present perfect, past perfect, future, passives, conditionals, reported speech!