Active voice-Past continuous tense rules
Past continuous tense rules and application
Sentence: I eat food.
In the above sentence I is the subject, eat is the verb and food is the object.
1st form of verb: eat, 2nd form of verb: ate, 3rd form of verb: eaten
Gerund is the ing form
Positive sentence
(I, He, She, It) as a subject
Subject+ was+1st form of verb + ing + object
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I was eating food. |
He was eating food. |
She was eating food. |
It was eating food. |
(You, They, We) as a subject
Subject+ were +1st form of verb+ ing+ object.
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You were eating food. |
They were eating food. |
We were eating food. |
Negative sentence
(I, He, She, It) as a subject
Subject+ was+ not+1st form of verb+ ing + object
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I was not eating food. |
He was not eating food. |
She was not eating food. |
It was not eating food. |
(You, They, We) as a subject
Subject+ were+ not+1st form of verb+ ing + object
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You were not eating food. |
They were not eating food. |
We were not eating food. |
Interrogative sentence
(I, He, She, It) as a subject
Was + subject+ 1st form of verb+ ing + object
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Was I eating food? |
Was he eating food? |
Was she eating food? |
Was it eating food? |
(You, They, We) as a subject
Were+ subject +1st form of verb+ ing+ object?
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Were you eating food? |
Were they eating food? |
Were we eating food? |
