which tense should be used when referring to two past actions

[Suryaprathap]

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[Mister Micawber]

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[Kissy]

Do you mean something such as:

We played ball and Frisbee?

I think what you are wondering about is how one would word past actions in a sequence--within one sentence. Actually it is easy to mismatch the tense. Also very important: The verb agreement. People get that wrong all of the time, myself included. The next sentence I'll type will be incorrect; underneath it will be the corrected version of the sentence:

We played ball, Frisbee, tennis, and watched TV.

We played ball, Frisbee, and tennis; then, we watched TV.

Reasoning: The simplest way that I can put this is that you are supposed to keep together a sequence of things only if you can put each word in the sequence after the verb with the sentence still making sense. The words in the sequence after the verb need to be interchangeable. The verb here is "played", and in the incorrect sentence, after "played" you can plug in "Frisbee" and "tennis" but not "watched TV". It would be "We played watched TV, Frisbee, and tennis. Try that out on the correct sentence.

You will see sentences formed the first way (incorrect way) all of the time but it is not really correct English. I'm not sure if this is the problem you are having or not, but I gave it a shot.

[Beeesneees]

Hello Suryaprathap,

When two past actions--one interrupting the other and one longer than the other--happen at the same time, then the past perfect continuous tense is used.
In this situation, the simple past tense is used for the shorter action and the past continuous tense is used for the longer action.

In addition, the words 'while' and 'when' may be used to make the tense differences clear:

I was taking (past continuous) a bath when you knocked (simple past) the door.
When you knocked (simple past) the door, I was taking (past continuous) a bath.
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