English-2
Grade-7
Easy

Question

What form of the main verb is used in the past continuous tense?

  1. Present participle
  2. Past participle
  3. Future participle
  4. Infinitive form

hintHint:

Forming past continuous tense contains a helping verb and present participle to describe ongoing events that occurred in the past. 'She was reading a book'.

The correct answer is: Present participle


    It is called past continuous because it uses the past tense of the auxiliary verb 'be' (was or were) followed by present participle of main verb which is used to describe an action that is or was continuously happening. For example, I was working'.

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