1. The document discusses the past continuous tense and how it is used to describe actions that were ongoing or in progress at a specific time in the past. 2. It provides examples of using the past continuous tense with affirmative, interrogative, and negative forms. 3. Key uses of the past continuous tense include describing an action over a period of time in the past and saying that someone was in the middle of an action at a certain time.

1. Past continuous tense The farmer was working at 6 o’clock yesterday evening

2. Past continuous tense AFFIRMATIVE: Play I was play ing You We They were He She It was

3. Past continuous tense INTERROGATIVE: Play NEGATIVE: Play was I play ing ? were you we they was he she it I was not wasn’t play ing You We They were not weren’t He She It was not wasn’t

4. Uses of the past continuous 1-W e use the past continuous tense to describe a past action over a period of time " What were they doing yesterday at 8 0’clock ?" "They were working all day.

5. This time yesterday the hairdresser was working 2- We use the past continuous to say that somebody was in the middle of doing something at a certain time.

6. 3- Past simple and past continuous are used together when something happened in the middle of something else . The policeman broke his ankle while he was running after the dog.