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    The document provides information on how to form and use the past continuous tense in English. It explains that the past continuous is formed using "was/were + verb+ing" and lists rules for adding "-ing" to different verb types. It also gives examples of when to use the past continuous, such as for actions happening at the same time in the past, habitual past actions, and unfinished past actions. Finally it provides common time markers used with the past continuous tense.

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    Past Continuous

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    The document provides information on how to form and use the past continuous tense in English. It explains that the past continuous is formed using "was/were + verb+ing" and lists rules for adding "-ing" to different verb types. It also gives examples of when to use the past continuous, such as for actions happening at the same time in the past, habitual past actions, and unfinished past actions. Finally it provides common time markers used with the past continuous tense.

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    PAST CONTINUOUS

    HOW TO FORM?

    NOTE
    + to be + Ving .  consonant + -e  -e + -ing
     -ie  -ie + -y + -ing
     -c  + -k + -ing
     1 syllable: consonant #1 +
    + to be + not + Ving . vowel + consonant #2 (except
    w, x, y)  double consonant
    #2 + -ing
    (Wh-) + to be + + Ving ?  2 syllable: last syllable
    stressed  double consonant
    #2 + -ing

    WHEN TO USE?

     to show that  two actions in the same


    something continued for sentence, when both actions
    some time at a precise time in were happening at the same
    the past time
     for something  the background in a story
    that happened again and again written in the past tense
    in the past  an unfinished action that was
     a habitual action in the past interrupted by another event
    or action

    MARKERS

     all/the whole/the  at that moment NOTE


     when
    entire time/  at … o’clock
    morning/  from… till…
    day/life/etc  while

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