Question

GE FOCUS AND VOCABULARY Past continuous: affirmative and 1 Choose the correct words. Yesterday at two o'clock... Molly was/were sleeping in the garden. 1 You was/ were reading a book. 2 Maria and Tamara was/ were swimming in the lake. 3 I was/ were playing basketball. 4 Carl was/were having lunch at home. 5 John was/ were driving across the Sahara Desert.​

Answer 1

Yesterday at two o'clock... Molly was sleeping in the garden.

1 You were reading a book.

2 Maria and Tamara were swimming in the lake.

3 I was playing basketball.

4 Carl was having lunch at home.

5 John was driving across the Sahara Desert.

The past continuous tense is formed with was/were + verb + -ing. We use was for singular subjects and were for plural subjects or you.