Past Continuous

• Form:   I/he/she/it      was playing

                           We/ you/they   had played

• Use

• The past continuous is used in the following cases:

• To express an action that was going on at  a particular time in the past.

         e.g. last Sunday at 9 O’clock I was watching  a documentary about healthcare.

        At the time of robbery, we were playing video games upstairs.

• To talk about two actions that are going on over the same period of time.

     e.g. While john was watching TV , Mary was cooking.

• To show that something happened in the middle of an action.

      e.g. I was injured when I was repairing my car.

       It began to snow while we were playing football.

Exercise