Question

Does he not tell the story? ( Make it past continuous tense)​​

Answer 1

Answer:

• According to the given sentence Past Continuous Tense is : Was he not telling the story?

• Structure of Interrogative + Negative Sentence in Past Continuous Tense : Auxiliary verbs ( was / were ) + Subject + not + main verb + ing + object + question mark?

• Example : Was he not telling the story?

• In this sentence 'was' is an auxiliary verb, 'he' is subject, 'not' has been used as negative maker, 'telling' is main verb ( tell + ing ) and 'the story' is object here.

Answer 2

Answer:

Was he not telling the story?

Explanation:

We use the past continuous for an action that we were in the middle of. We often use the past continuous and simple past together when one (shorter) action comes in the middle of another (longer) one.  

Past continuous is also used to talk about actions that happen temporarily in the past.  

I was reading a book.

The birds were chirping in the garden.

The following verb/s form is used to express past continuous tense:

was/were+V1+-ing