Question

what is past continues tense with example​

Answer 1

Answer:

Look at the following sentence:

The police stopped me when I was driving my bike without helmet.

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. The policeman stopped me (shorter action) in the middle of the longer action (when I was driving my bike).

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.

Answer 2

TENSE

What is Past Continuous Tense?

Ans. Tense which represents an ongoing task in the past is called Past Continuous Tense.

General way of writing a sentence in past continuous tense is :-

Subject + Was/Were + V1 with ing

Some examples are as follows :-

• I was reading a newspaper in the morning.
• Ridhi was solving questions in her notebook.
• The birds were chirping in the morning.
• The band was singing in the cafeteria.
• He was eating popcorn in the evening.
• He was cooking pasta.
• Shivam was trembling with fear.
• Siyali was making Rangoli.

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