Past Continuous Forms: Affirmative, Negative, and Questions

Learn past continuous forms in English with this comprehensive video lesson.

Understanding the past continuous tense is essential for describing actions that were happening at a specific moment in the past. In our video lesson, we cover the four main forms of past continuous: affirmative, question, negative, and negative question.

• Affirmative Form:
  • Structure: Subject + was/were + verb (present participle)
  • Example: I was singing.
• Question Form:
  • Structure: Was/Were + subject + verb (present participle)?
  • Example: Was I singing?
• Negative Form:
  • Structure: Subject + was/were + not + verb (present participle)
  • Example: I was not singing / I wasn't singing.
• Negative Question Form:
  • Structure: Was/Were + subject + not + verb (present participle)? / Wasn't + subject + verb (present participle)?
  • Example: Was not I singing? / Wasn't I singing?

Watch the video to understand these forms better and enhance your English grammar.