Question

the girls( talk) during the class yesterday.




make the past continuous tense sentences​

Answer 1

The girls were talking during the class yesterday.

• There are different divisions of the past tense and past continuous tense is one of the most important divisions of past tense.
• The general pattern for any past continuous tense is : was/were + (verb + ing).
• Now, the usage of 'was' or 'were' depends on the presence of singular noun or plural noun in the sentence.
• In the given sentence, the subject is plural noun, (ie. girls) and that's why we have used 'were' in the past continuous tense.

Answer 2

the girls( talk) during the class yesterday.

make the past continuous tense sentence.

Answer:

The girls were talking during the class yesterday.

Structure of the past continuous form:

Sub + were + verb + ing + Obj

• Past continuous tense describes an action started in the past moment and continuing to the present time.

• we need to convert the given sentence into the past continuous tense.

There are four past tenses:

1) Simple Past Tense: I went to the park.

2) Past Continuous Tense: I was going to the park.

3) Past Perfect Tense: I had gone to the park.

4) Past Perfect Continuous Tense: I had been going to the park.