Question

Which phrase is often followed by the past continuous?

Answer 1

"While" is often followed by the past continous tense.

Explanation:

• Some sentences starts with "when", now it becomes clear that it is a simple past tense.

• For example, it goes like, "When we arrived there, she was sleeping."

• Now, many sentence start with "While", it shows that the action is still happening sometime in the past.

• For example, "while she was sleeping, we arrived there".

Answer 2

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"While" is often followed by the past continuous tense