Past Continuous Tense PDF
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المعهد العالي للحاسب الآلي - كينج مريوط
Dr.Salma Darwish
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This document explains the past continuous tense in English grammar. It covers the use of past continuous tense and how to construct affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms. Examples provided in the document illustrate different applications of the past continuous tense.
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We use the past continuous to describe an interrupted activity which continued for a period in the past and to talk about things happening for a continuous period in the past. tosay that somebody was in the middle of doing something He was playing computer games. fortwo things happe...
We use the past continuous to describe an interrupted activity which continued for a period in the past and to talk about things happening for a continuous period in the past. tosay that somebody was in the middle of doing something He was playing computer games. fortwo things happening at the same time He was playing computer games while she was watching TV. for things you were in the middle of doing when another thing happened He was watching TV when Tom arrived. We form the past continuous tense with the helping verb was/were + present participle (V + -ing). Iwas going we were going You were going you were going He was going they were going She was going It was going We form questions by using the helping verb was/were + subject + present participle (V + ing). Was I going? Were we going? Were you going? Were you going? Was hegoing? Were they going? Was she going? Was it going? We form the negative with the helping verb was/were + not + present participle (V + ing). I was not going we were not going You were not going you were not going He was not going they were not going She was not going It was not going Any Question? Thank you
