PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

1.      We use past continuous Tense to say that someone was in the middle of doing

something at a certain time. The action or situation had already started before  this time but hadn’t finished:

This time last year I was living in Brazil

2.    We often use the past continuous Tense and the past simple together to say that

something happened in the middle of something else:

When I was working in the garden, I hurt my back.

The pattern :

S + was/were + verb 4………………….When + s + Verb 2…….……

S + was/were + not + Verb 4…………….When + s + Verb 2…………

Was/were + S + verb 4…………………. When + s + Verb 2 ……. ….?

QW + was/were + S + verb 4……………When + s + Verb 2 …………?

Example:

+ She was cooking rice when Tom came yesterday

- She wasn’t cooking rice when Tom came yesterday

? Was she cooking rice when Tom came yesterday?