- Past Continuous Tense is used to say that somebody was in the middle of doing something at a certain time (I was studying at 8 o’clock last night)
- Simple Past and Past Continuous Tense are often used together to say that something happened in the middle of something else (I studied when you were sleeping)
Form of Past Continuous Tense
Affirmative
Subject + was/were + verb-ing
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I was studying English
You/ we/ they were studying English
He/ she/ my friend/ it was eating
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Negative
Subject + was/were + not + verb-ing
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I wasn’t studying English
You/ we/ they weren’t studying English
He/ she/ my friend/ it wasn’t eating
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Interrogative
Was/were + subject + verb-ing
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Was I studying English
Were you/ we/ they weren’t studying English
Was he/ she/ my friend/ it eating
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Negative interrogative
Was/were + not + subject + verb-ing
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Wasn’t I studying English
Weren’t you/ we/ they weren’t working
Wasn’t he/ she/ my friend/ it eating
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Short Answer Question
Past
Continuous Tense
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Question
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Short Answer
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Complete
Answer
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Were they working?
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Yes they were
No, they weren’t
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Yes they were working
No, they weren’t working
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Was he working?
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Yes he was
No, he wasn’t
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Yes he was working
No, he was working
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