Past continuous tense: অতীত কালে কোনো কাজ হচ্ছিল বা চলছিল এরূপ বোঝালে verb-এর past continuous tense হয়।
গঠন প্রণালি: Subject-এর পর person ও number অনুসারে was বা were বসে এবং মূল verb-এর শেষে ing যোগ হয়।
Here is how to form the past continuous in English.
| Structure of past continuous | ||
| positive | negative | question |
| I was reading a book. He/she was talking. It was raining. |
I wasn’t (was not) reading. He/she wasn’t talking. It wasn’t raining. |
Was I reading? Was he/she talking? Was it raining? |
| You were reading a book. We were waiting. They were drinking. |
You weren’t (were not) reading. We weren’t talking. They weren’t drinking. |
Were you reading? Were we waiting? Were they drinking? |
| Past continuous – common mistakes | ||
| Common mistakes | Correct version | Why? |
| I was waiting for him almost two hours. | To form the past continuous we use was/were + ing. | |
| What was he doing when you saw him? | ||
| We played tennis every morning. | We use the past simple for repeated actions in the past. | |
| They were watching TV when I came. | We use the past continuous when we want to say what was happening (what was in progress) at a particular time in the past. | |
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