Past Simple and Past Continuous: Matching the Rules

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Here's a grammar worksheet titled Past Simple and Past Continuous, with a handwritten note reading simple scribbled near the top of the torn page. The instructions ask students to read the sentences on the left and match them to the correct usage explained on the right. Sentence one says: I was doing my homework when my friend knocked on the door, with doing and knocked underlined and an arrow pointing to doing. Sentence two says: In March 2009, Oman won the Gulf Cup, with Gulf Cup circled to highlight the completed action. Sentence three begins: She was wearing a lovely pink dress and, trailing off to show an ongoing activity still happening in the past. The rules match up: past simple describes a completed action, while past continuous shows an ongoing activity or something happening, connecting each sentence correctly.