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2. Negative sentence

Subject Verb

I was not playing.

He, She, It, Mala was not playing.

We, You, They, Tara and Kalpana were not playing.

3. Interrogative sentence

Verb Subject Verb

Was I playing?

Was he, she, it, Mala playing?

we, you, they, Tara
Were playing?
and Kalpana

Uses of Past Continuous Tense

We use the past continuous tense to

1. describe an unfinished job that was interrupted by another event. For example,

y I was sleeping when he came to my house.

y The family was having dinner when the doorbell rang.

2. describe actions that were going on at the same time in the past. For example,
y Mahesh was washing the dishes while Rajni was making dinner.

y Mother was watching television while Father was laying the table.

3. talk about a specific time in the past. For example,

y Last night at 10 p.m., I was watching television.

y Last week, at this time, we were driving through Ladakh.

A. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the past continuous tense of the verbs
given in the brackets.

1. The wind fiercely for over an hour. (blow)

2. Mita with the lights on when there was a power cut. (sleep)

3. Sandeep, Mamta and Chirag to watch a film. (go)

4. He met with an accident because he too fast. (drive)

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