Past Continuous Tense

Past Continuous Tense

Past Continuous Tense: Past Continuous Tense is used to express the action going on for sometime in the past times.

Was and were are used as auxiliary verb. Was is used for 1^st and 3^rd person and were is used for 2^nd person and for all sorts of plural numbers.

I was plucking flowers.

She was dancing.

***Structure-1: sub+was/were+v+ing+ob+extension.

The policeman was running after the thief.

The dog was barking loudly seeing the man.

They were sleeping very soundly.

He was running in the sun.

Negative Sentence:

***Structure-2: sub+was/were+not+v+ing+ob+extension.

He was doing his duty properly.

I was not sleeping then.

We were not going to the market.

Interrogative Sentence:

***Structure-3: was/were+ sub+v+ing+ob+extension?

Were you trembling seeing him?

Were you going home?

What were they doing then?

What was your teacher teaching you?