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16 Past
Continuous Tense
Warm-up
Choose the correct option to complete these sentences.
1. The dog (was/were) barking at them.
2. I (was/were) studying.
3. The boys (was/were) shouting.
4. Madhuri (was/were) writing a letter.
5. Mithun (was/were) reading a book.
6. The children (was/were) playing with the toys.
7. Tia (was/were) decorating the room.
8. He (was/were) singing a song.
We use the past continuous tense to talk about what was happening at a
particular time in the past. To form the past continuous tense, we use
was/were + verb + ing.
Study this table to understand the structure of the past continuous tense.
Singular Plural
I was singing. We were singing.
You were singing. You were singing.
He/She/It was singing. They were singing.
A. Complete these sentences with the past continuous tense form of the verbs
given in the brackets.
1. The baby (sleep).
2. Mother (cook).
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