Past continuous

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Past continuous

The past continuous (also called past progressive) is one of the continuous verb forms in English.

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The past continuous tense mainly describes actions that are in progress at a particular time in the past time frame.

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The uses of the past continuous are:

1 express actions or states that were taking in the past

2 Provide context in the past

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The past continuous have three sentences

affirmative

negative

question

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Affirmative sentence

Affirmative sentences in the past continuous are formed using verb be (was / were) + base verb -ing.

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Negative sentence

Negative sentences are formed by adding not (or the short form n't) to the past tense of the verb be

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Question form

Yes/No question are formed using the past form of the verb be (was / were) + subject + base verb-ing.

Wh-questions begin with one of the wh-question words. (Wh-question words are: what, where, when, why, who, which, whose, how.)

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• Affirmative sentences examples

• I was eating.

• She was dancing

• He was teaching

• It was drinking

• We were searching

• You were playing

• They were singing

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• Negative sentence example

• I was not eating.

• She wasn't sleeping

• He was not cleaning

• It was not seeing

• We weren't watching

• You were not swimming

• They weren't running

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• Question sentence example

• Was I eating your pizza?

• Were you having fun?

• Was she sleeping?

• Was it raining outside?

• Why was she crying?

• When were they coming?