PAST

CONTINUOUS
TENSE
1. Fatimah Afifah
2. Khoirunnisa
3. Rizki Aziz Radyantama

WHAT IS IT?
It is used to express a continued or
ongoing action in past, an ongoing action
which occurred in past and completed at
some point in past. It expresses an ongoing
nature of an action in past.
For example, he was eating. This
sentence shows ongoing action (laughing)
of a person which occurred in past. Past
continuous tense is also called past
progressive.

STRUCTURE OF SENTENCE
Positive sentence (+)
Subject + was/were + (1st form of verb
or base verb + ing) + object
Negative sentence (-)
Subject + was/were + NOT + (1st form
of verb or base verb +ing) + object
Interrogative sentence (?)
Was/were + Subject + (1st form of
verb or base verb +ing) + object + ?

EXAMPLES
Positive sentence
He was eating yesterday.
The workers were queuing
I was writing
Negative sentence
He was not eating yesterday.
The workers werent queuing
I wasnt writing

 Interogative sentence
Were the workers queuing?
Was he eating yesterday?
Were you writing?

THE END.