Question

It _______ (rain) heavily since yesterday.[Past Continuous

Tense]​

Answer 1

QUESTION:-

Change the sentence into Past Continuous Tense

It _______ (rain) heavily since yesterday.

ANSWER:-

• It was raining heavily since yesterday.

EXPLANATION:-

• In the above sentence, was raining is the past continuous tense of rain.
• The Past Continuous Tense is used for an action that was continuing for some time in the past.
• Verbs in the past continuous tense have the following forms:-

1. I/He/She + was + main verb + -ing
2. We/You/They/Plural subjects + were + main verb + -ing
3. The negative is formed by adding was/were + not to the present particle form of the verb
4. To form the interrogative, the positions of the subject and auxiliary verb are interchanged.

• Examples of Past continuous tense are:-

1. He was helping me with my homework.
2. The passenger was talking to the driver.
3. I was not studying
4. Was he feeling sad?

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Answer 2

Answer:

It was raining heavily since yesterday

Explanation:

• The past continuous tense of rain is used in the previous sentence. When an action remained ongoing in the past for a while, the Past Continuous Tense was utilized.

• In the past continuous tense, verbs can take the following shapes:

1. the primary verb + I/He/She was + the -ing
2. We, You, They, or Plural Subjects plus the main verb plus the -ing
3. The negative is created by changing the verb's present particle form to was/were + not.
4. The subject and auxiliary verb positions are switched to create the interrogative.

• An essential tense in English is past continuous. We employ it to explain our actions at a particular historical moment.

• The auxiliary verb (be) is used in the past tense. simple: was, were. The present participle of the primary verb is constant: -ing