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 1st and 3rd
person and were is used for 2nd
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?
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