Question

they were playing chess . name the tense​

Answer 1

Past continuous tense is the answer.

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Answer 2

They were playing chess is in the past continuous tense.

• The past continuous tense is used to mention actions that started in the past and were continued until the next event happened.
• A sentence in past continuous tense is constructed using the formula:

        Subject + was/were + base verb+ing.

• In the given case, the subject is 'they', and the base verb is 'play'.