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Like all future tenses, the future continuous cannot be used in clauses beginning with time expressions such as: when, while, before, after, by the time, as soon as, if, unless, etc. Instead of future continuous, present continuous is used.
Actions in progress at a time in the past. Past Continuous is used to show something was happening at some point in the past. This point may be expressed as a certain time or another action in the past. Words that often signal this tense: while, during. I was living in Singapore during the 1990s.
Here are 100 examples of sentences in the past continuous tense: I was studying for my exam last night. They were playing soccer in the park. She was cooking dinner when the phone rang. We were watching a movie when the power went out. He was driving to work when he got a flat tire. The kids were laughing and playing in the backyard.
I'm reading about how to use "when" and "while" with past continuous and past simple tense. I quite understand about them. But there are another examples using "but" to join past continuous and past simple tense. I don't understand about them. Here are those sentences. I waved to Helen, but she wasn't looking.
You were not playing. You weren't playing. Were you playing? They were playing. They were not playing. They weren't playing. Were they playing? To talk about a continuous action which was in progress at a specific time in the past : Yesterday evening, at 9 o'clock I was watching television.
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