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The past continuous tense is most often used for actions happening at some time in the past.
When we want to talk about an action that was happening over a period of time in the past,
we use the past continuous tense. Look at these examples:
The past continuous is very often used with the past simple to say that something happened in
the middle of something else. In each of the following examples, the single event (past
simple) happens in the middle of a longer action (past continuous).