The Past Continuous Tense is also known as the past progressive tense. It is used to describe an action or state which was happening during a time in the past.
Examples:
- She was reading a novel.
- The children were playing cricket.
subject + was/were + v1 (ing)
AFFIRMATIVE FORM
Examples:
- I was eating.
- I was studying.
- You were playing.
- We were fighting.
- They were reading.
- He was running.
- She was cooking.
- She was crying.
- Alex was working.
- My mother was cleaning.
Exercise 01
NEGATIVE FORM
Examples:
- I was not playing / I wasn’t playing.
- You were not studying / You weren’t studying.
- The parrots were not eating mangoes / The parrots weren’t eating mangoes.
- He was not making a kite / He wasn’t making a kite.
- It was not raining yesterday / It wasn’t raining yesterday.
Exercise 02
INTERROGATIVE FORM
We add “Was / Were” before the subject to make the questions in past continuous tense.
Examples:
- Was I playing?
- Were you working?
- Were they reading?
- Were we talking?
- Was she crying?
Exercise 03
