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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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