Past Continuous
by Yordan Portal Olivos
1. Examples: in the past *I was watching TV when she called. *When the phone rang, she was writing a letter. *While we were having the picnic, it started to rain.
2. Examples : in the past *You were studying when she called. *Were you studying when she called? *You were not studying when she called.
3. Use :the Past Continuous to indicate that a longer action in the past was interrupted
4. Examples: the Past Continuous is interrupted by a shorter action in the Simple Past: *Last night at 6 PM, I was eating dinner. *At midnight, we were still driving through the desert.
