Forming the past continuous

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working

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when you called me

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maybe i answered the phone maybe i

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didn't but i was working when he called

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me

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okay with all these examples

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how do we form

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the past continuous

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so this one's hopefully a little easier

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um

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than the simple past there are fewer

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irregular verbs

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um

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all you do is

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um

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let's see

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can you tell us actually

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we know the answers so look at the

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examples we gave you

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how do you form the past continuous

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how do you form the past continuous and

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again look at our examples

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you see a pattern

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so for example

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i was working

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i was working

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yeah yeah yep

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so we have subject plus

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great captain he said it the conjugated

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form of b

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which would be was or were

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plus verb in the ing form

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so i was working

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we were traveling

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i was working

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yeah great yeah

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yeah perfect

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not so bad right

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yeah

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um

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and we already saw

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the forms of b in the past tense

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i'm afraid to copy this whole list yeah

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but we know that it's i she he it was

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and you

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we and they were right

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um

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and

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making the ing forms of verbs is overall

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pretty simple you just add ing to the

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end so we saw this with i was working

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i was going

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they were talking we were eating

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just adding ing to the end

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so

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walk becomes walking

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go going

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etc

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now there are some that

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you have to make a couple of little

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changes