I would like to know the uses of past progressive

Hi,

We use the past progressive (a.k.a continuous) tense to say what we were in the middle of doing at a point in time in the past. Here is the structure of the past progressive tense :

object + was/were + -ing form of a base verb.

Q: What did you / they do at 5:00PM yesterday? (a point in time in the past)

A: I was working in my office / They were playing basketball. (in the middle of working)

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