Past Continious ❤
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This use beginning of a story:
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Key ideas
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Last week as I was driving to work …
The other day I was waiting for a bus when …
or something that happened before and after a particular time:
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It was eight o’clock. I was writing a letter.
In July she was working in McDonald’s.
Were you studying when she called?
You were not studying when she called.
You were studying when she called.
for something that was happening again and again:
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They were meeting secretly after school.
They were always quarrelling.
I was practising every day, three times a day.
The Past Continuous tense is an important tense in English. We use it to say what we were in the middle of doing at a particular moment in the past.
The past continuous describes actions or events in a time before now, which began in the past and is still going on at the time of speaking.