Monday, October 1, 2007

Past Progressive or Past Continuous

Signal words

Use

Form

Examples
affirmative

Examples
negative

Examples
interrogative

while

an action happened in the middle of another action

someone was doing sth. at a certain time (in the past) - you do not know whether it was finished or not

was/were + infinitive + -ing

I was working.

I wasn't working.

Was I working?

He was working.

He wasn't working.

Was he working?

I was going.

I wasn't going.

Was I going?

He was going.

He wasn't going.

Was he going?

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