Past Continuous

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Past Continuous
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How do I make it?

• Past tense of to be verb(ing)
• I was studying when the phone rang.
• We were driving when it started to rain.

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Use 1 Action interrupted in the past

• Use the Past Continuous to indicate that a longer
  action in the past was interrupted. The
  interruption is usually an action in the Simple
  Past.
• While we were having a picnic, it started to
  rain.
• I was reading when he stopped by.

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Use 2 Specific time in the past

• What were you doing last night at 1143?
• I was playing Xbox 360.

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Use 3 Irritation (with always)

• She was always teasing me about my hair.
• He was always tripping me when I walked.

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Use 4 Parallel Action

• Two things happening at the same time in the
  past.
• I was washing my car while he was giving the dog
  a bath.

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Question Past Continuous

• Reverse the verb to be with the subject of the
  sentence.
• She was always teasing me about my hair.
• Was she always teasing you about your hair?
• He was always tripping me when I walked.
• Was he always tripping you when you walked?

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Passive Voice

• Past tense of to be being past participle
• The dog was biting me when the policeman arrived.
  
• I was being bit by the dog when the policeman
  arrived.

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Practice

• Past continuous
• 2 sentences interrupted action
• 2 sentences specific time
• 2 sentences parallel
• 2 sentences with irritation