The document discusses the past continuous tense in English. It explains the form of the past continuous tense in positive, negative, and yes/no question sentences. It then provides four uses of the past continuous tense: 1) to describe an action that was in progress at a specific time in the past, 2) to describe an action that was ongoing over a period of time in the past, 3) to describe a longer ongoing action that was interrupted by a shorter action in simple past tense, 4) to describe a temporary or non-permanent action in the past. It concludes by contrasting the past continuous and past simple tenses.

1. Past Continuous Tense

2. Form of Past Continuous Tense: Positive Sentence books. reading was He, She, It happily. dancing were You, We, They to music. listening was I modifier. main verb (V +ing ) + “ BE” + Subject +

3. Form of Past Continuous Tense: Negative Sentence wasn't books. reading not was He, She, It weren't happily. dancing not were You, We, They wasn't to music. listening not was I modifier. main verb (V +ing ) + NOT + “ BE” + Subject +

4. Form of Past Continuous Tense: Yes-No Question lazy? being he, she, it Was World’s Cup last night? watching you, we, they Were to music? listening I Was modifier ? main verb (V +ing ) + Subject + “ BE” +

5. Form of Past Continuous Tense: Wh-Question at 11 o’clock last night? doing he, she, it was Who World’s Cup last night? watching you, we, they were Where to when the phone rang? talking I was Who modifier ? main verb (V+ing) + Subject + “ BE” + Question word

9. Jimmy was taking a bath when the phone rang . A: What were you doing when you broke your leg? B: I was snowboarding .

12. Past Continuous Tense & Past Simple Tense I was watching TV when Jim knocked the door. Long action = (watching TV), expressed with past continuous tense Short action = (knocked), expressed with simple past tense

13. ‘ when’ + short action (past simple tense) ‘while ’ + long action (past continuous tense) I was watching TV when Jim knocked the door . Jim knocked the door , I was watching TV While I was watching TV while Jim knocked the door I was watching TV , Jim knocked the door When Jim knocked the door. when I was watching TV