(e.g. I was working).
The past continuous tense is used for:
(1) an action that took place at a specific time in the past, e.g. “This time last year, everyone was talking about the Leonardo da Vinci that sold to the Louvre Abu Dhabi for $450 million.”
(2) an action interrupted by another action, e.g. “These delays meant electric trains were not running on these lines when the timetable overhaul happened.”
(3) two simultaneous actions, e.g. “The snake bit the woman while she was visiting Whixall Moss, near Whitchurch, north Shropshire, on Saturday afternoon.”
(4) setting (describing) a scene, e.g. “‘It was raining hard, the wind was blowing, the rough was high and it was hard to reach certain greens,’ he said.”
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