Past Continuous

    Este tiempo se usa para describir una acción que se desarrolla en el momento pasado específico del que se habla, es decir, una acción que "se estaba desarrollando". Generalmente se usa con acciones interrumpidas por otras.

    Se construye con la forma pasada del verbo "to be", que es irregular y la forma en gerundio del verbo deseado. Aquí una tabla con el verbo "to be" en sus formas pasadas, ya sea positivo, negativo, o el negativo abreviado

I was	I was not	I wasn't
You were	You were not	You weren't
He was / She was / It was	He was not / She was not / It was not	He wasn't / She wasn´t /It wasn't
We were	We were not	We weren't
They were	They were not	They weren´t

    Se debe recordar que, para construir el gerunddio se usa el sufijo "-ing" que no puede usarse de cualquier forma:

- Algunos verbos permiten solamente escribirlo al final.

- Aquellos verbos que terminan en "e" requieren de eliminarla antes de poner el sufijo.

- Si termina en consonante - vocal - consonate require de duplicar la última consonante.

- La consonante no se duplica en los verbos cuya sílaba acentuada sea la primera.

Ejemplos:

- I was playing when it started raining.

- They were having breakfast exactly here.

- She was cleaning the kitchen when the gas ignited.