- Past continuous
Past continuous is used to describe actions and states continued in the past period of time.
The construction of a past continuous is similar to the present continuous tense, be it that it has a past simple form of 'to be' instead of a present simple form preceding the present participle.
An example of a past continuous inside a sentence would be 'I "was painting" the house.' There's the past simple form of 'to be' in the finite position ("was"), with the present participle of 'to paint' ("painting") following it.
For the
1971 novel byYaakov Shabtai seePast Continuous (novel) See also
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