Simple Past Continous Tense

Past Continuous Tense
 
Past continuous tense is a verb form that is used to express actions that occur during a particular moment in the past. Action can occur singly, repeatedly, or interrupted by another action.

Past Continuous Tense Formula
The past continuous tense formula for positive words, negative, and interrogative sentences following examples are as follows.
type of sentence

formula

Examples of Past Continuous Tense
positive (+)

S + be (was / were) + participle V1-ing/present

The team was playing basketball.
The workers were queuing for salaries.
negative (-)

S + be (was / were) + not + V1-ing/present participle

The team was not playing basketball.
The workers were not queuing for salaries.
interrogatives (?)

be (was / were) + S + V1-ing/present participle

Was the team playing basketball?
Were the workers queuing for salaries?
Note:

     was for a singular subject (I, she, he, it, and the third person) and were for the plural subject (you, they, we, the third person plural).
     change the verb refers to the rules of progressive and non-progressive verb.
     verb used is Transitive and intransitive.
     be used an auxiliary verb.