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How do we make the Past Continuous Tense?

The structure of the past continuous tense is:

subject+auxiliary verb BE+main verb
conjugated in simple past tensepresent participle
was
were
base + ing

For negative sentences in the past continuous tense, we insert not between the auxiliary verb and main verb. For question sentences, we exchange the subject and auxiliary verb. Look at these example sentences with the past continuous tense:

 subjectauxiliary verbmain verb 
+Iwas watchingTV.
+Youwere workinghard.
-He, she, itwasnothelpingMary.
-Wewerenotjoking. 
?Wereyou beingsilly?
?Werethey playingfootball?

How do we use the past continuous tense? »

The spelling rules for adding ing to make the past continuous tense are the same as for the present continuous tense.