For beginner English learners — an introduction to the past progressive tense. This tense describes an action that was in progress at some point in the past. The past progressive tense is very useful in English when you want to recount events or tell stories about things that have happened to you.
Simple and easy to understand…
Are there any exceptions here?
Jai
Actually, yes. I think it would have been interesting to add that some stative verbs are not normally used in the continuous (for example, have, like, need, want, know…). If I remember correctly, the progressive forms occur only with dynamic verbs. Of course, some verbs can be both stative and dynamic.
There is an ESL lesson about stative verbs : https://www.engvid.com/english-grammar-stative-verbs/
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Hi,
can I ask you when I should use I was watting for you.
and when I should use I have been watting for you.
The situation is if I am having a date with someone and I whant to tell him …….
Thank you very much for an answer….Silvia
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Hello. I’m Hang. I’m from Vietnam. I’d like you to help me this
“It…….(rain) all day yesterday” what exact tense can we use here”
I hope to hear from you soon. Thanks a lot.
Hang
Hi Hang,
In this case, you can use a variety of tenses. Here they are:
“It rained all day yesterday.”
“It was raining all day yesterday.”
“It had rained all day yesterday.”
“It had been raining all day yesterday.”
The first one is the one you were probably looking for.
Alex
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Do a search for “passive causative” at the top of the webpage. :)
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preemy
sir Alex, i’m not agree with this phrase: While he was swimming, i was reading.
if i understood something in English i will say: While he was swimming, I read(past tense).
While+past continuous, past tense. Wright or wrong?????
amine0082
Hi amine,
Both ways are correct.
Alex
Thank you very much for the lesson
Enjoy
I’d be very grateful to you, if you could take up a lesson about “Past Perfect Continues”.Also could you explain the differences between “past Perfect Continues and Past Continues”
your response will be highly appreciated
Jonny
what is the difference between
“Tracy was reading a book yesterday” or
“Tracy had been reading a book ”
thank you in advance
Jonny
Past perfect and past perfect progressive sentences, like “Tracy had read a book yesterday,” or “Tracy had been reading a book yesterday,” are generally used to talk about an event in the PAST past. Essentially, you can use them to talk about an event that happened BEFORE another event in the past. Sometimes though, there is very little difference in meaning.
Alex
cxellent,today is the first time I can understad this difference.
Thank you.
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what is the difference between
“Tracy was reading a book yesterday” or
“Tracy had been reading a book ”
thank you in advance
lostdel
tracy was reading a book yestrday is past progressive.
and tracy had been reading a book is past prefect progressive.
omidkhan
Past perfect and past perfect progressive sentences, like “Tracy had read a book yesterday,” or “Tracy had been reading a book yesterday,” are generally used to talk about an event in the PAST past. Essentially, you can use them to talk about an event that happened BEFORE another event in the past. Sometimes though, there is very little difference in meaning.
Alex
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sir can we says that past proggressive talk about an finishd action
omidkhan
soryyyy unfinishd action
omidkhan
Correct. It was in progress at some moment in the past. Of course, it is finished NOW, but it was in progress and was unfinished in the past.
Alex
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I agree that “are you free now?” might be correct due to we are expressing as question term. At the same time if i say
What are you doing on my system? or else if i say
What you are doing on my system? Which term is to be correct?
I keen to here answer for above mentioned doubts.
Warm Regards,
Mohammed Shahith (India)
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1- to express apast action in progress when another action took place.
2-to express 2 actions that were happening at the same time.
3-to express an activity in progress during atime in the past.
So, ” i was watching t.v” how is this example expesses the past continous however there is 1 action which is watcing? plz answer me
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In the point n° 3 of the text there is: my friendS were dancing for 4 hours.
Ok, we have to use were because we are talking about friendS (then we were).
But why did you use the past progressive if the friends finished the action (dance) after 4 hours? (or maybe the action start 4 hours before and still going on…) I’m confused.
Could you explain me this point please?
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which one of the following statements is more likely to be correct and way?
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or
2/It has been raining, so I didn’t go out.
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if these two answers in my question ,how i choose the answer.how i identiy the situation it is past progressive or past tense.please help me
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thanks for nice Lesson
Past Progressive is so essential
Simple and easy to understand…
Are there any exceptions here?
Actually, yes. I think it would have been interesting to add that some stative verbs are not normally used in the continuous (for example, have, like, need, want, know…). If I remember correctly, the progressive forms occur only with dynamic verbs. Of course, some verbs can be both stative and dynamic.
There is an ESL lesson about stative verbs : https://www.engvid.com/english-grammar-stative-verbs/
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Hi,
can I ask you when I should use I was watting for you.
and when I should use I have been watting for you.
The situation is if I am having a date with someone and I whant to tell him …….
Thank you very much for an answer….Silvia
i was waiting for you
Absolutely great topic!
Easy to understand
thank you for your lesson…
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Hello. I’m Hang. I’m from Vietnam. I’d like you to help me this
“It…….(rain) all day yesterday” what exact tense can we use here”
I hope to hear from you soon. Thanks a lot.
Hi Hang,
In this case, you can use a variety of tenses. Here they are:
“It rained all day yesterday.”
“It was raining all day yesterday.”
“It had rained all day yesterday.”
“It had been raining all day yesterday.”
The first one is the one you were probably looking for.
Thanks alot for your teaching and i would like to learn from you about active and passive. Thanks again.
Do a search for “passive causative” at the top of the webpage. :)
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Thank you .
my english is very bed but i improve my languge for your lessons .thankyou
All the lessons are excellent.
Thank you
Great lessons and awsome resource.
2 things:
-Conditionals are ver difficult for L2 learners! Could you, or any of your colleagues do a lesson on conditionals?
Hi Alex,my english is very bed,please help me!
Hi Alex,thank you so much for oll lessons!
Thank you
I’m very thankful I found your site. Your lessons are very helpful to me and I guess also to everybody who wants to learn how to speak english well. Thanks a lot and more power.
nice for testing basic knowledge in eng.
Thanks.
Thanks
Great lesson especially for writing a narrative. Thank you Alex.
Yea is that is right but all the time of the novel I mean …… Narrative…..
sir Alex, i’m not agree with this phrase: While he was swimming, i was reading.
if i understood something in English i will say: While he was swimming, I read(past tense).
While+past continuous, past tense. Wright or wrong?????
Hi amine,
Both ways are correct.
Thank you very much for the lesson
I’d be very grateful to you, if you could take up a lesson about “Past Perfect Continues”.Also could you explain the differences between “past Perfect Continues and Past Continues”
your response will be highly appreciated
what is the difference between
“Tracy was reading a book yesterday” or
“Tracy had been reading a book ”
thank you in advance
Past perfect and past perfect progressive sentences, like “Tracy had read a book yesterday,” or “Tracy had been reading a book yesterday,” are generally used to talk about an event in the PAST past. Essentially, you can use them to talk about an event that happened BEFORE another event in the past. Sometimes though, there is very little difference in meaning.
cxellent,today is the first time I can understad this difference.
Thank you.
hi, i m very thankful to respected sir Alex.
His way of teacing is very very good and easy to understand.
God bless u always and all the ways.
Thanks again for this noble teaching.
ALLAH HAFIZ
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very nice this site
thanx alooooooooot
yes,very nice because you help understand more english
Tks!
Hi Mr.Alex
I am very glad to find your wonderful site. It is really very useful for me. Thank you so much.
what is the difference between
“Tracy was reading a book yesterday” or
“Tracy had been reading a book ”
thank you in advance
tracy was reading a book yestrday is past progressive.
and tracy had been reading a book is past prefect progressive.
Past perfect and past perfect progressive sentences, like “Tracy had read a book yesterday,” or “Tracy had been reading a book yesterday,” are generally used to talk about an event in the PAST past. Essentially, you can use them to talk about an event that happened BEFORE another event in the past. Sometimes though, there is very little difference in meaning.
hi Mr.Alex i enjoyed your methods how to teach English thanks
That’s great! Mr. Alex thought very well.
salam sir
sir can we says that past proggressive talk about an finishd action
soryyyy unfinishd action
Correct. It was in progress at some moment in the past. Of course, it is finished NOW, but it was in progress and was unfinished in the past.
tnx
i like your teaching style
and you are doing good job
Hi Alex
Where are you teaching now.
I come from Viet Nam
And Who want to chat in English.
Contact me.
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it’s very easy thank you so much.
it`very thank
greatful
Hi Mr.Alex,
I’m having problems with my conjunctions(AND,OR,NOR,SO,etc) in writing.I can’t connect my ideas in a logical way when to use FANBOYS.
Can you help me with the above problems?
Thanks
Delroy
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I still dont understand the different between washed the dishes and was washing the dishes as in both the dishes were done and thats it.
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i don’t understand, what’s the difference with simple past??? somebody help me…. please… because in the thirth example Alex use a phrase that it was finished in the past: they were singing very loudly… it was in the past and it finished, not is happening !!! i dont understand.. thank you
thank you alix.for this lesson
thank alot
Hi Alex,
I have a doubt in following example and please let me out on this doubts.
You are free now or Are you free now
Which one is correct and usually are will come before you/we as per rule of English.
I agree that “are you free now?” might be correct due to we are expressing as question term. At the same time if i say
What are you doing on my system? or else if i say
What you are doing on my system? Which term is to be correct?
I keen to here answer for above mentioned doubts.
Warm Regards,
Mohammed Shahith (India)
Mohammed, “You are free now” is an affirmation and “Are you free now” is a question. The more correct write is Are you free now? About the second question, I think that the first is correct. I am not a teacher but I always want help the others members of this site when I can.
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Thank you! Alex, I like the way you explaining pass progressive.
thank you for the nice lestion
Thank’s for your teaching.
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Thank you, the video really helps
Thank you so much that was helpful
The lessons are very useful ! thnx ! But I think chat rooms will help a lot
I agree!
please help me what is a different between past progressive and past perfect?
Thank Alex,this lesson is very useful and i agree whit sweet Vampire ….
how to use would in past tense..
what is the difference between have and have been
Hi Alex,
Could you tell me what is the difference past tense and past perfect tense?
Good teaching Alex thank you.
Thank you for this lesson:))
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mr alex . what the future perfect and future perfect progressive
Wow Finally I found a good web to learn English and all you guys is Awesome.
hello ,i would like to know the meaning of future parfect progrssive and past perfect progrssive.
Thank you for this lesson:))
Thanks Alex but I have a question here please
May I say …….I was walking while my friend Chris ran
Thanks again
thank Alex so much, i will watch all your lesson
Thanks, nice lesson :-)
Thank you, Sir! Got 5/5. :)
thank you very much for this lesson, but can you tell us when we should use the past simple and when we should use the past continuous??
nice lessons,thanks
Thanks for nice video I really understand it more
thank you very much.please continue
is the use of the past continous for more than 1 action? because i know it’s use:
1- to express apast action in progress when another action took place.
2-to express 2 actions that were happening at the same time.
3-to express an activity in progress during atime in the past.
So, ” i was watching t.v” how is this example expesses the past continous however there is 1 action which is watcing? plz answer me
Thanks for your good lesson about “PAST PROGRESSIVE”.
Simple and clear, thanks Alex
Good Job!
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Thankyou that was useful and amazing !
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Thank you so much professor :)
Thanks, Alex! I always prefer your lesson
Amazing Lesson , Thank you Alex :D
I understand it very well. I got 5/5! :) Thanks teacher Alex for sharing!
Thank you your method make it very clear and easy.
Hi Alex,
thanks a lot for useful lesson
take care
100/100, thanks for nice Lesson.
Thank you for the lesson
In the point n° 3 of the text there is: my friendS were dancing for 4 hours.
Ok, we have to use were because we are talking about friendS (then we were).
But why did you use the past progressive if the friends finished the action (dance) after 4 hours? (or maybe the action start 4 hours before and still going on…) I’m confused.
Could you explain me this point please?
this testing very very simple :)
Thanks for the lesson Alex.
Thanks.
thanks a lot
thank Mr Alex … i got 100/100
Thanks Alex.
The lesson was easy and clear.
I have a question and I hope you could clarify this matter to me, because it’s really confusing me.
which one of the following statements is more likely to be correct and way?
1/ It was raining, so I didn’t go out.
or
2/It has been raining, so I didn’t go out.
Thanks in advance.
thanks…today i have an exam on this topic :s
Great explication!
Thank you a lot.
As a new English teacher I sometimes struggle to find ways to explain things to my students (especially beginners) in a simple way they can easily understand. Thank you for this lesson it helped me plan my lesson and the students understood everything.
thanx Alex you`re a great teacher
Bad lesson – there is no clear explanation.
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Thank You Alex
Thank you very much :)
Hi Alex, thanks to you!
It is an honor to have lesson with you.
I’ll see you soon, good luck and take care
8/10 another good lesson!
Hi Alex ! Before I didn’t understanding how it worked, but now I understand !!!!! THANK you Very much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thank you sir. That was useful !
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Thanks a lot Mr. Alex
Thanks for the lesson Alex.
Thanks to Mr. Alex
Thanks for this lesson
Great lesson! Thanks Alex! I got 5/5!!
what is the difference between the sentence
1. i was walked yesterday
2.i was walking yesterday
if these two answers in my question ,how i choose the answer.how i identiy the situation it is past progressive or past tense.please help me
Thank you teacher
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Thanks.. Nice tutorial
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Thank for the lesson . I got 100 out of 100
the best question was the last. A little bit confused but I got it right . Once again, Thanks.
It is a good exercise to move foward our english.
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Hello Alex, hello everyone,
thanks for this lesson.
It was useful introduction to past progressive tense for me. Now, i’m going to watch other videos about that from engvid.
I wish you all the best in learning English.
Bye ;)
thank you very much Mr.Alex
Thanks Alex alot
I watched this video twice on May 21, 2021, and I took the quiz after watching it once. I got five correct out of 5.
thank you
thanks for this very useful lesson.
Teacher Alex this is great class. thank you teacher Alex for teaching me, the english.
Yesterday, I was learning english with you.
hello,I think that the past progressive tense describes an activity that was progressive in a period of time in the past and is finished.so I am confused with the answer of question number 5 .
This is good for beginners and thank you Alex sir.
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