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Past Progressive Tense Quiz

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Present tense

Past perfect tense

Future tense

Past progressive tense (correct)

To describe an action that will happen in the present

To describe an action that was in progress at a specific time in the past (correct)

To describe an action that happened in the present

To describe an action that will happen in the future

An action that started in the past and was interrupted by another action (correct)

An action that happened after the past

An action that happened before the past

An action that happened at the same time in the past

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The past progressive tense is difficult for many non-native speakers to master because many languages don't have an equivalent.
The past progressive tense is used to describe an ongoing action that started before a specific time in the past and continued up to that time.
The past progressive tense describes an action that was in progress at a specific point in the past, emphasizing the ongoing nature of the action.
The word order in a sentence when using the past progressive tense is: Subject + was/were + present participle (ing form) of the verb.
The past progressive tense is formed using the auxiliary verb was/were (depending on the subject) and the present participle (ing form) of the main verb.