Forming the Past Continuous Tense

Negative form

This page will explain the rules for forming the negative form of this tense with regular verbs.

Forming the past continuous tense

The negative part is inserted between the verb BE (in the past tense), and the -ING form of a verb. Here are the rules, using different examples :
Subject
BE
NOT
-ING FORM
I
was
not
singing
You
were
not
speaking
He
was
not
working
She
was
not
sleeping
It
was
not
raining
We
were
not
skating
They
were
not
going




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