​Past Continuous

​is used to describe an action in progress at a specific moment in the past.

​Mom is on the phone now, but

• She was making dinner.

• She was grabbing the fryer.

• She was wearing an apron.

​You called.

​Simple Past

Past Continuous

Mom was making dinner.

​Past Continuous

To conjugate in this tense, we need to put the auxiliary verb BE in the simple past and make the gerund for the main verb.

​was cooking