Past Continious

The past continuous describes actions or events located in a time before the present, the beginning is in the past and it is not finished at the moment of speaking. The past continuous talks about an incomplete or unfinished action from the past.

Please answer this question.

What were you doing yesterday at 7 PM ?

• Clear

• no clear

You ....... visiting your friends

• is

• were

• are

• was

The structure of the Past Continuous Tense is:

• Be + Verb

• Be (was & were) + Verb -ing

• both are correct

we use the prast cotinuous....

• to talk about past activities that finished

• to talk about activities that are in progress in the present

• to talk about activities that were happening at a specific moment in the past

• to talk about habits and regular activities

S + Verb (ing) + C

• Affirmative

• Negattive

• Interrogative

Yesterday my dog ___ _______ in the garden

S + was/were + not + v (ing) + C

• negative

• affirmative

• interrogative

Lucy ___ ___ ______ junk food

• is eating

• ate

• was eating

• was not eating

Was / Were + S + V (ing) + C + ?

• this is affirmative

• this is negative

• this is interrogative