I love to say that grammar is easy. I hope this article on Past Continuous will prove it to you.

As usual I will cover formation, usage with examples.

Formation

As you can see, we use the familiar verb ‘to be’ (its past forms) and verb with ending -ing.

Key information on Pest Continuous formation:

• remember about sentence structure: subject + predicate (e.g. I was reading);
• past forms of the verb ‘to be’ — was and were.
   It carries out only grammatical meaning.
• We use verbs with -ing ending: reading, playing.It conveys the meaning of the process.
   It shows what was happening.

Usage

Past Continuous has four possible usages:

• action in the middle of happening at a stated past time:

This time last week I was travelling across Africa.

• two or more simultaneous past actions of certain duration:

I was washing up while he was cooking the dinner.

• background description to events in story:

She was walking alone the river…

• past action in progress interrupted by another past action:

I was reading a newspaper when the telephone rang.

Time expressions

while, as, the moment that, etc.

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