{"id":186,"date":"2019-10-17T23:24:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T17:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/?page_id=186"},"modified":"2019-10-24T21:34:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T16:04:56","slug":"past-continuous-tense","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/english\/tense\/past-continuous-tense","title":{"rendered":"Past Continuous Tense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tense is used to indicate that an action was continuing\nin the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also this tense is used to show that while an action was\nfinished in the past another action is still going on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>  Sub + was\/were + verb+ing + Obj <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Example<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When I came into the room, she was reading a novel.<\/li><li>When Tom reached home, his child was waiting for him at the gate.<\/li><li>His children were sleeping when she came.<\/li><li>The light went off while I was reading.<\/li><li>I was playing chess while he called upon me. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button simple past Tense is-style-squared\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/english\/tense\/simple-past-tense\">Simple Past Tense<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button alignright is-style-squared my-nav-buttons-right\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/english\/tense\/past-perfect-tense\">Past Perfect Tense<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tense is used to indicate that an action was continuing in the past. Also this tense is used to show that while an action was finished in the past another action is still going on. Sub + was\/were + verb+ing + Obj Example When I came into the room, she was reading a novel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":2120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-english"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7pDEj-30","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":206,"url":"https:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/english\/tense\/future-continuous-tense","url_meta":{"origin":186,"position":0},"title":"Future Continuous Tense","author":"Ranjith","date":"October 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Future Continuous Tense is used to say that an action will be continuing in the future at a fixed time. 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