[Grammar] I played games/I was playing games.

[Dzidzi]

How should i say :

When i was young i was playing games.
When i was young i played games.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Re: Past simple or past countinuos

How should I say: (No space before a colon.)

When I was young I was playing games.
When I was young I played games.

Capitalize the word I.

 

[Tarheel]

Re: Past simple or past countinuos

I played games when I was young.

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Which is used, and which isn't?

 

[Rover_KE]

Re: Past simple or past countinuos

Please note that I have changed your thread title.

Extract from the Posting Guidelines:

'Thread titles should include all or part of the word/phrase being discussed.'

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Please reread what Piscean wrote about the pronoun 'I' in this earlier thread.