The document discusses the past continuous tense in English grammar. It provides examples of affirmative and interrogative sentences using the past continuous tense. It also describes three main uses of the past continuous tense: 1) to describe an ongoing past action over a period of time, 2) to say someone was in the middle of an action at a certain time, and 3) how the past simple and past continuous tenses are used together when one action interrupted another ongoing action.

1. Past continuous tense The farmer was working at 6 o’clock yesterday evening

2. Past continuous tense AFFIRMATIVE: Play was He She It were You We They play ing was I

3. Past continuous tense Was the teacher explaining grammar at school last Monday? No, she wasn’t. She was explaining Geography.

4. Past continuous tense INTERROGATIVE: Play NEGATIVE: Play was were was he she it you we they play ing ? I He She It You We They I was not wasn’t were not weren’t play ing Was not Wasn’t

5. Uses of the past continuous 1-W e use the past continuous tense to describe a past action over a period of time " What were they doing yesterday at 8 0’clock ?" "They were working all day.

6. This time yesterday the hairdresser was working 2- We use the past continuous to say that somebody was in the middle of doing something at a certain time.

7. 3- Past simple and past continuous are used together when something happened in the middle of something else The policeman broke his ankle while he was running after the dog