What is the difference between these two sentences?

Question

1) I showered at 7:30 am.
2) I was showering at 7:30 am.

Answer 1

These answers are incredible.

1 - Past tense. Something that happened in the past; a completed action. Over and done.

2 - Past progressive (or continuous) tense. Used for actions in progress in the past or actions which began before something else happened. Also used for parallel actions - two things happening at the same time in the past.

Answer 2

These sentences are both Simple Past in tense.
1. The verb is active.
2. The verb is passive.

1. Indicated that you did indeed shower and you showered
at 7:30 AM.
2. Establishes what you were doing at 7:30 AM.

Answer 3

1) Is in the past tense.
2) Is the pluperfect tense if you add another past tense event, such as:
I was showering at 7:30 am, when I remembered I had an appointment in 15 minutes.

Answer 4

No 1 is a finished act. No.2 is unfinished. In fact I don't think that it is a sentence. It's a phrase, cos it doesn't have a finite verb. U would need to add more, Eg: I was showering at 7.30 am when the phone rang. Hope this helps

Answer 5

1) Straight past tense. It happened.
2) Past perfect tense. It happened while something else was happening. I was showering at 7:30 a.m. (when my neighbor called). or to answer the question, "What were you doing?"

Answer 6

1) gives the impression you began showering at 7:30.
2) gives the impression you were already in the process of showering at 7:30.

Answer 7

Showered is past tense.
Was showering is present perfect tense.

Answer 8

Yes. The first sentence indicates past tense and the second sentence indicates present tense.

Answer 9

(1) means that you have finished a sentence.
(2) means that you still have more to say.....

Answer 10

Number 1 is past tence, and number 2 is currently happening.