Simultaneous events: perfect and imperfect tenses together
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I can use the perfect and imperfect tenses together, including within 'est-ce que' structures to describe simultaneous events.
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[r] is pronounced as in 'rue'. It is different to English 'r'.
Use the perfect tense for one-off past actions and the imperfect for things that used to happen regularly.
Use the imperfect tense to express the past continuous 'was -ing'.
Use the perfect + imperfect tenses together with a conjunction to describe what happened when you were doing something.
Use 'est-ce que' in the imperfect tense with its usual structure to ask about 2 things happening at the same time.
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