I (wait) at the station for 20 minutes last night (Tense)

[maramarija]

Hello everyone!

I am not sure which tense I should use in this sentence: I (wait) at the station for 20 minutes last night.
This ‘last night’ confuses me. Otherwise I would use Present Perfect Continuous.

 

[GoesStation]

Welcome to the forum, maramarija. :hi:


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."

The past continuous or the past simple are both possible, depending on what you're trying to say. What context do you want to say this in?

 

[jutfrank]

You can use here the past simple or the past continuous.

 

[GoesStation]

You can use here the past simple or the past continuous.

Yet again I've mangled my tense names. Of course I was thinking of the past continuous in post #2. I have no idea why I wrote "present perfect continuous". Sorry.

 

[jutfrank]

Yet again I've mangled my tense names ... Sorry.

Try harder. :-D

 

[GoesStation]

Try harder. :-D

There is no try — but you already knew that.

 

[Tarheel]

Yet again I've mangled my tense names. Of course I was thinking of the past continuous in post #2. I have no idea why I wrote "present perfect continuous". Sorry.

Yes, but I didn't see that one, so your post looked fine to me.