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Material 5.1
Past Continous Tense
When we retell the experiences or events that were ongoing
in the past we use a past continuous tense. There are 3 usage
of past continuous tense :
To express actions that were ongoing in the past
Ex : He was playing tennis yesterday.
To retell two or more ongoing past actions at the same
time
Ex : She was washing clothes while he was eating dinner.
As a time expression
Ex : He was driving car at 05.00pm yesterday.
There are three forms of past continuous
tense, which are like the picture beside
It is also important to know that the
usage of was/were are dependent on
the subject of the sentence:
Was : I. She, He, It
Were : You, We, They
Pict source : https://berita.99.co/contoh-kalimat-past-continuous-tense/
