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The Past Continuous Tense Part 1
The Past Continuous Tense Part 1
The Past Continuous Tense Part 1
He was playing
computer games.
PAST CONTINUOUS: USE
• For two things happening at the same
time
He was playing computer games while
she was watching TV.
GRAMMAR
Affirmative form
• We form the past continuous tense with the
verb to be (past tense) was/were + verb in
gerund (V1 + -ing).
I
He You
She WAS We WERE
It They
Some examples:
running
All the students were dancing in the party.
The baby was playing during the day.
We were running in the park.
Negative form
• We form the past continuous tense with the
verb to be (past tense) in negative form
wasn’t/weren’t + verb in gerund (V1 + -ing).
Some examples:
I wasn’t working yesterday morning.
My parents weren’t watching TV this afternoon.
Eleonor and Thomas weren’t studying on Thursday.
Interrogative form
• https://www.liveworksheets.com/du7862cq
• What were you doing…?
https://wordwall.net/es/resource/56912296
Make a dialogue using the past
continuous tense.
M. Tesen
Mgtr. Gimena Sialer Herrera.
Email: gsialer@usat.edu.pe