English Past Continuous Tense, Definition and Example Sentences Past Continuous Tense If we are talking about the past tense, and if this event has been going on for a while, we usually have to use past continuous tense. When we talk about the past, we mean that things happen all of a sudden. Sometimes we think that the duration of these events is important and therefore we make sentences in this way. The use of past continuous tense is a structure that we should use when describing actions…
