Question

It______ when we _____ the station (rain,reach)

Answer 1

Answer:

It___was raining___ when we __reached___ the station.

Answer 2

Answer:

It was raining when we reached the station

Explanation:

The past tense has four forms -

• Simple Past Tense
• Past Continuous Tense
• Past Perfect Tense and
• Past Perfect Continuous Tense

The past continuous tense indicates

• An action which continued for some time in the past, but whose exact limits are not known.

• a frequently repeated or habitual action in the past.

• a definite future arrangement (intention about the future in the past).

When the simple past tense and the past continuous tense are used together, the past continuous indicates a longer, ongoing action and the simple past tense indicates the new action.