Grammar: Past Continuous

 ¿Qué estabas diciendo cuando he entrado en la clase? 

What were you saying when I came in? 

Qué ojalá hoy fuera Grammar Day!!!!!! 

No esperaba menos de ti my wonderful grammar lover!!!! 🥳 🥳 🎉

 

 

The past continuous refers to an action that started in the past and was ongoing (when something else happened ). 

subject + was/were + verb with ‘-ing’.

I                 was           reading 

Yo           estaba         leyendo


Uses:


1. An action that was happening in the past at a particular moment. 

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 I was studying English at six o'clock.

  
2. An action in progress until it is interrupted (Past Simple). "When" is used before the past simple.
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I was sleeping when the phone rang.  
When the phone rang, I was sleeping.
 
3. Parallel actions. Two actions happening at the same time. We do this by stating the two events, and connecting them with the word ‘while’. ‘While’ can go in between the clauses, or at the start of the sentence. 
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The teacher was explaining the grammar while we were listening.
While we were waiting for the train, we were having a coffee on the platform.


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