Semana 5 : Past continuos

Past continuous is a verb tense also called past progressive. It is used for continuous actions in the past. STRUCTURE Subject + Was/Were + Verb + ING Examples: I was sleeping. They were dancing. Past continuous is used to show an action that was continuing in the past until another action interrupted it. The continuing action is past continuous and the interrupting action is simple past. Example: I was sleeping when you called me. (The action of sleeping was continuing over time until the telephone call interrupted the sleeping.) Here are some more examples: She was playing in the park when it started to rain. While they were talking, the pizza arrived. The car crashed when we were walking across the street. An expression of time can be used as an interruption as well. We were eating dinner at 4 o’clock. At 6 o’clock we were still studying for our test.