What is the Past Continuous?
The past continuous is used to talk about an action that was happening at a certain time in the past.
How to form a sentence in the past continuous:
Subject + was/were + verb (with -ing)
Examples:
I was playing football.
They were studying.
Key words: While / When / At that time / All day / All night / jus as |
- While I was doing my homework, my uncle came.
- I was walking to school when it started raining.
- At that time, they were practicing for the school play.
- At 10 p.m., I was reading a book.
- She was baking cookies all day yesterday.
- We were watching movies all night during the sleepover.
- Just as I was opening the door, the phone rang.