IV. CONTINUOUS TENSE: EXPANSION AND EXERCISES

5.0 Past Continuous and Future Continuous

The Past Continuous and Future Continuous Tenses are almost exactly the same as the Present Continuous Tense. They use the same concepts of time, with the action happening for a limited vs. an unlimited time and having clear time borders (the action starts, continues, and stops). The action happens at a specific time (not a time in general), and time is always mentioned or can be implied from the context of the communication. They are written in basically the same way as the Present Continuous Tense: Past Form = Past Verb BE + 'ing' verb, Future = Future Verb 'BE' + 'be' + 'ing' form verb.