*Past Continuous

​Past Continuous

​Past Continuous

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​Past Continuous

​is used to describe an action in progress at a specific moment in the past.

​Mom is on the phone now, but

• She was making dinner.

• She was grabbing the fryer.

• She was wearing an apron.

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​You called.

​Simple Past

Past Continuous

Mom was making dinner.

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​Past Continuous

To conjugate in this tense, we need to put the auxiliary verb BE in the simple past and make the gerund for the main verb.

​was cooking

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I​

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walking home at 6 o'clock last night.

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was

were

are

is

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I don't know what the men said because they ​ ​

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talking too quietly for me to hear.

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She ​

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looking at her phone when she fell over.

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Multiple Choice

My sisters _________ at a YouTube video.

• did laughing

• was laughing

• were laughing

• laughing

Multiple Choice

........ she reading a magazine when Peter arrived?

• were

• was

• do

• did

Multiple Choice

They ............... watching a film yesterday afternoon

• weren`t

• wasn`t

• don`t

• isn`t