Forms: was talking, were going.
Questions and negatives are made with the auxiliary (was or were), e.g.:
| Was she talking? Where were they going? She wasn't talking. They weren't going. |
We use this tense to refer to events in past time that are considered as incomplete, e.g.:
| My father was dying. (Mi padre se estaba muriendo.) Compare: My father died in 1989. (Mi padre murió en el año 1989.) |
| One day, when Mary was playing tennis, she broke her racket. (Un día, mientras Mary jugaba a tenis, rompió la raqueta.) Compare: Last year Mary played tennis almost every weekend. (El año pasado Mary jugaba al tenis casi todos los fines de semana.) |
| At 10 o'clock it wasn't raining. (A las diez no llovía.) |
| Was it raining when you went out? (¿Llovía cuando saliste?) Compare: Last Saturday it rained all morning. (El sábado pasado llovió durante toda la mañana.) |
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