Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Past continuous
- uses
- To describe an action in progress at a specific moment in the past .
- To describe the situation at the beginning of a story or narrative.
When she was a
baby...
- For a complete action in the past. I was working in my office.
- Use the past continuous to indicate that a longer action in the past was interrupted. The interruption is usually a shorter action.
I was watching TV when she called
- The past continuous with words such as "always" or "constantly" expresses the idea that something irritating or shocking often happened in the past. She was always coming to class late.