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Past Continuous
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Tense

Warm-up

Fill in the blanks with the past continuous form of the verbs given in

the brackets.

1. Feroze his bicycle. (ride)

2. It early in the morning.
(drizzle)

3. The girls in the hall. (sing)

4. She a book. (read)

5. It heavily. (rain)

6. The cow in the meadow. (graze)

7. I for a bus. (wait)

8. They themselves. (enjoy)

9. The girls us. (help)

The past continuous tense is used to show actions that were going on or continuing
sometime in the past.

Structure of Past Continuous Tense

1. Declarative sentence

Subject Verb

I was playing.

He, She, It, Mala was playing.

We, You, They, Tara and Kalpana were playing.

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