Past Continuous

Past Continuous:

What is Past Continuous? Past Continuous is one of the 12 kinds of tenses.

There are 12 kinds of tenses:

1= Present Indefinite.

2= Past Indefinite.

3= Future Indefinite.

4= Present Continuous.

5= Past Continuous.

6= Future Continuous.

7=  Present Perfect.

8= Past Perfect.

9= Future Perfect.

10= Present Perfect Continuous.

11= Past Perfect Continuous.

12= Future Perfect Continuous.

Use of Past Continuous: 

We use Past Continuous. When any Action was Continue in past. When we were doing something and that action was continue in past so we use Past Continuous.

Structure:

Every tense or every structure has Structure because Structure is very important for making a sentence with the help of Structure you can make a correct sentence. In this Structure the first one is (SUBJECT) (Subject the action performer the person or people who performs the action) And The second one is (VERB) (Verb is an Action that work which shows Action). And the 3rd one is (OBJECT) (Object is that the one that is being worked on).

Subject + Was/Were + Verb ((ing) Form) + Object.               (Positive)

Subject + Was/Were + not + Verb ((ing) form) + Object.     (Negative)

Was/Were + Subject + Verb ((ing) Form) + Object?         (Interrogative) 

Was/Were:

Was/Were is the helping verbs of past continuous It will be helpful for you to make positive, Negative and Interrogative sentences. Now the question is that where we use (was) and where(Were).

Was: He, She, It, I.

Were: We, You, They.

Important Note About Verb (ing form):

You can see in structure that After Was/Were we put verb's ing form. Every continues Tense we put verb's ing form. What is Verb's ing form. there are 3 form of verb 1st form, 2nd form, 3rd form. But in any continua tense we have to modifie 1st form of verb with ing for making any continuous sentence .LIKE; 

1= Run, Running  

2= Talk, Talking

3= say, saying

4= look, looking

5= give, giving

 

Example:

1= I was speaking.                                         (We use positive sentence to talk about simple)

I was not speaking.                                             (We use negative when we denying something)

Was i speaking?                                             (We use interrogative for asking about something)

2= She was looking him.                                     (We use positive sentence to talk about simple)

She was not looking him.                              (We use negative when we denying something)

Was she looking him?                                  (We use interrogative for asking about something)

3= You were reading.                                              (We use positive sentence to talk about simple)

     You were not reading.                                       (We use negative when we denying something)

     Were you reading?                                      (We use interrogative for asking about something)

4= They were watching T.V.                                    (We use positive sentence to talk about simple)

     They were not watching T.V.                             (We use negative when we denying something)

     Were they watching T.V?                             (We use interrogative for asking about something)

5= We were singing song.                                         (We use positive sentence to talk about simple)

     We were not singing song.                                   (We use negative when we denying something)

     Were we singing song?                               (We use interrogative for asking about something)