Past Continuous Tense


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Past Continuous Tense

Past Continuous Tense: Past Continuous Tense is used in the following situations:

I.    Interrupted Action: Past Continuous is used to indicate a longer action in the past, interrupted by a shorter action. The shorter action is usually in the Simple Past tense.

     Example:

    I was cooking when you called.

    Here in this sentence, the action of cooking was interrupted by a shorter action called. Therefore the longer action would be in the past continuous was cooking and the shorter action in simple past called.

II.   Parallel actions: Past continuous is used to indicate that two actions were happening at the same time in the past i.e. the actions were parallel.

     Example:

     I was watching a movie while he was having dinner.

     In the above example, two actions were happening at the same time, viz watching a movie and having dinner.

 
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