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Past continuous

Hi! Today i am goingto explain to you the past continuous tense.

We use this tense to speak about an action which was happening in the past and mainly, when something happens in the middle of another action.

examples:
I was studying at 7 o´ clock
When i was cooking he arrived home.

The structure of this tense is:   Subject + was/were + verb + ing

I was running   -   I wasn´t running   -   Was I running? 
He/she was running   -   He/she wasn´t running   -   Was he/she running?
We were running   -   We weren´t running   -   Were we running?


 Here you can watch a video explanation.

 

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