Past Progressive

Uses:

• Express activities that occurred at some point in the past and that continue after
• The situations in which you use this tense are the same both in English as in Spanish. 
• The past progressive can express incomplete action.

I was sleeping on the couch when Bertie smashed through the door.

(as opposed to the simple past, which suggests a completed action:

I slept on the couch last night.

• The past progressive is also used to poke fun at or criticize an action that is sporadic but habitual in nature:

Tashonda was always handing in late papers.

My father was always lecturing my brother.

Structure:

subject    +   was/were     +    verb in progressive form

• I was walking
• you were cating
• she was thinking
• we were planning
• It was snowing
• The moon was lighting

rules for the gerund

Dance-----------Dancing

Lie----------------Luing

Swin-------------Swimming

play--------------Playing

Picnic-----------Picnicking

This tense, the past progressive, is used when you say sentences such as..

I was working.	Estaba trabajando. / Trabajaba
They were studying.	Ellos estaban estudiando ahora.
We were selling a novel	Estábamos vendiendo una novela.
He was eating a lot.	Él estaba comiendo mucho.
She was leaving in two days.	Estaba partiendo en dos díasor..
	partía en dos días.

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