Past Continuous sentences focus on an action that happened at a specific time in the past.
Past continuous rules = was/were + verb + ing
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- You were cooking dinner at 7pm.
- I was cooking dinner when my husband came home.
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- I wasn’t watching TV when my husband came home.
- You weren’t watching TV at 7pm.
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- Were you cooking dinner when your husband came home?
- Was he cooking dinner at 7pm?
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