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    This document discusses the past continuous tense in English. It provides examples of using the past continuous tense in affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences. It also outlines three main uses of the past continuous tense: 1) to describe an action over a period of time in the past, 2) to say what someone was doing at a specific past time, and 3) to describe two simultaneous past actions using the past continuous and past simple together. Time expressions that can be used with the past continuous are also listed.

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    This document discusses the past continuous tense in English. It provides examples of using the past continuous tense in affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences. It also outlines three main uses of the past continuous tense: 1) to describe an action over a period of time in the past, 2) to say what someone was doing at a specific past time, and 3) to describe two simultaneous past actions using the past continuous and past simple together. Time expressions that can be used with the past continuous are also listed.

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    The Past Continuous: The Detective Was Investigating at 6 O'clock Yesterday

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    hedaro
    This document discusses the past continuous tense in English. It provides examples of using the past continuous tense in affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences. It also outlines three main uses of the past continuous tense: 1) to describe an action over a period of time in the past, 2) to say what someone was doing at a specific past time, and 3) to describe two simultaneous past actions using the past continuous and past simple together. Time expressions that can be used with the past continuous are also listed.

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    The Past Continuous

    The detective was investigating at 6


    oclock yesterday
    The Past Continuous

    I

    was



    playing
    You
    We
    They

    were
    He
    She
    It

    was
    AFFIRMATIVE: Play
    The plumber was
    repairing the pipes
    NEGATIVE: Play
    The Past Continuous

    I
    was not
    wasnt




    playin
    g
    You
    We
    They
    were
    not
    werent
    He
    She
    It
    was not
    wasnt
    The women werent
    eating.

    was

    I




    playing?



    were
    you
    we
    they

    was
    he
    she
    it
    INTERROGATIVE: Play
    (WH-)
    What was the drummer
    doing? He was playing
    the drums
    The Past Continuous
    Uses
    1-To describe a past action over a period
    of time
    "What were they doing yesterday at 10 0clock?"
    "They were singing all day.
    This time last week I was playing the guitar
    2-To say that somebody was in the middle of
    doing something at a certain time.


    3-Past simple and past continuous are used
    together when something happened in the
    middle of something else
    He ate a pizza while he was working.
    Time expressions:
    While, as, when.
    While we were playing basketball,
    it started to rain
    The Past Continuous

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