Past Continuous tense Example Sentences – All Four Forms

To understand Tenses in English, the best way is to know how they are actually used in daily communication. This means that, once you learn the usage and structure of a particular tense you need to look at various forms of examples of that tense. In this article, lets look at various forms of Past Continuous Tense Example Sentences.

Structure: Subject + Was/ Were + Verb 1 (V1) + ing + Object

I was watching Soccer on TV last night.Past continuous tense was expressed in sentences containing an action that was happening at some time in the past.

• He was working as a teacher during this time last year.
• I was visiting London in May last year.

Some more rules:

• This tense is used when two actions were simultaneously happening in the past. For example, “While he was doing the dishes, I was preparing lunch”. Here, both the deeds were happening in the past at the same time.
• This tense can also be used along with simple past tense. For example, “While I was going to the theater, I saw him on the road.”

Past Continuous tense Example Sentences

Like every tense, the past continuous tense too can be expressed in the following forms

Positive : Subject + was/were + V1 + ing + Object

Positive Interrogative : Was/were + subject + V1 + ing + Object?

Negative : Subject + was/were not + V1 + ing + Object

Negative Interrogative : Was/were not + subject + V1 + ing + Object?

Let us take an example and write it in the above four forms.

• Positive : They were watching a film.
• Positive Interrogative : Were they watching a film?
• Negative : They were not watching a film.
• Negative Interrogative : Were they not watching a film?

Exercise: Let’s take some more Past Continuous tense Example Sentences and try to write the four forms of all those.

1. I was being loud in the classroom.
2. She wasn’t going to write that poem.
3. He was waiting for you in the hall before he left.
4. It was getting darker.

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