Past Continuous – Exercises – Activities – Grammar

Structure Past Continuous

Affirmative Structure

I / He / She / It	was	reading
You / We / They	were

Negative Structure

I / He / She / It	was not	( wasn´t )	reading
You / We / They	were not	( weren´t)

Question Structure

Was	I / He / She / It	reading?
Were	You / We / They

Use past continuous

• for a continuing unfinished action in the past
• for a continuing unfinished action interrupted by a sudden past action.
• for activities as background description.
• for two continuing events happening at the same time.

while, when

• Use while with past continuous for the time the event was happening.
• Use when with past simple for actions.

Past Continuous Worksheets PDF