past continuous form and use
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Past continuous tense
The farmer was working at
6 o’clock yesterday evening
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Past continuous tense
I was
playing
You
We
They
were
He
She
It
was
AFFIRMATIVE: Play
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Past continuous tense
Was the teacher explaining grammar at schoollast Monday?No, she wasn’t. She was explaining Geography.
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Past continuous tense
was I
playing?
were
you
we
they
was
he
she
it
I
Was not
Wasn’t
playing
You
We
They
were not
weren’t
He
She
It
was not
wasn’t
INTERROGATIVE: Play NEGATIVE: Play
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Uses of the past continuous
1-We use the past continuous tense to describe a past action over a period of time
"What were they doing yesterday at 8 0’clock?" "They were working all day.
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This time yesterday the hairdresser was working
2-We use the past continuous to say that somebody was in the middle of doing something at a certain time.
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3-Past simple and past continuous are used together when something happened in the
middle of something else
The policeman broke his ankle while he was running after the dog
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Compare the past continuous (I was doing) and past simple (I did):
Past continuous (in the middle of an action)
I was walking home when I met Dave. (in the middle of walking home)
Ann was watching television when the phone rang.
Past simple (complete action)
I walked home after the party last night.
Ann watched televison a lot when she was ill last year
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Past continuous tense
Time expressions:
While, as, when.
While the band was playing a mobile phone rang