the Past Continuous tense

1. for a continuous action in the past which was interrupted by another action "I was reading the label, when the jar slipped out of my hands"; 2. to describe the atmosphere "The sun was shining"; 3. for two actions which happened in the same time in the past "I was sitting in the living room and she was taking a shower​

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​Forms and meaning

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was, were + Subject + Ving​

​What was he doing when you called him?

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Were they still working at 7 pm yesterday?

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What were you doing while watching TV last night?​

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Negative sentences

was not (wasn't)

were not (weren't) + Ving​

​He wasn't sleeping when his wife came home.

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They weren't playing computer games when the teacher entered the classroom.​

Subject | Subject

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