Belajar Bahasa Inggris (Past Continous Tense)

Chapter 5

PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

We use past continuous Tense to say that someone was in the middle of doing something at a certain time. The action or situation had already started before this time but hadn’t finished:

This time last year I was living in Brazil

We often use the past continuous Tense and the past simple together to say that something happened in the middle of something else:

When I was working in the garden, I hurt my back.

The pattern :

S +  was/were + verb/ing………………….When + s + Verb 2…….……

S + was/were + not + Verb/ing…………….When + s + Verb 2…………

Was/were + S + verb/ing…………………. When + s + Verb 2 ……. ….?

QW + was/were + S + verb/ing……………When + s + Verb 2 …………?

e.g.  (+)    She was cooking rice when Tom came yesterday

        (-)    She wasn’t cooking rice when Tom came yesterday

        (?)   Was she cooking rice when Tom came yesterday ?