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we are going to study past continuous in English so we use the verb to be in the

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past that is was for the first and third person and were for the other persons

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and then you have to add a verb ending in ing I was playing for the first

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person you were playing second person she was playing third person singular

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plural forms we were playing you were playing and they were playing the

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questions are formed just inverting the order were you dancing was she playing

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and the negative with weren't and wasn't so when do we use the past continuous we

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use it when we want to describe a specific situation in the past compare

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here the past simple and the past continuous I played video games

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yesterday specific situation yesterday I was playing video games yesterday at 4

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I am describing what I was doing so the first sentence is an example of past

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simple and the second one is an example of past continuous you can use past

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simple and continuous in the same sentence joining them through the

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connectors when and while. When I arrived home they were playing with the

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past simple while I was cooking the telephone rang with the past continuous.

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Now you can practice.