Past continuous tense
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The document discusses the past continuous tense in English grammar. It notes that the past continuous tense uses was/were plus the verb ending in -ing to talk about ongoing or repeated actions in the past. It provides examples of using the past continuous tense with time phrases like yesterday, last night, and last Sunday. It also explains that the past continuous can be used with the past simple tense to talk about two simultaneous actions, with conjunctions like when and while.
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