Past Continuous Tense

Affirmative	Negative		Interrogative
	Long Form	Contracted Form
I was playing	I was not playing	I wasn't playing	Was I playing?
You were playing	You were not playing	You weren't playing	Were you playing?
He/she/was playing	He/she/it was not playing	He/she/it wasn't playing	Was he/she/it playing?
We were playing	We were not playing	We weren't playing	Were we playiing?
You were playing	You were not playing	You weren't playing	Were you playing?
They were playing	They were not playing	They weren't playing	Were they playing?

The past continuous tense is used :

• To talk about a continuous action which took place at a specific time in the
   past :
  • Yesterday evening, at 9 o'clock, I was watching television.
  • What was I doing at 11 o'clock this morning? I was gardening.
• It is also used in sentences with when or while, to refer to an action which
   was taking place when a shorter, brief event occurred.
  • Yesterday, while I was watching television, the phone rang.
  • When my husband arrived home yesterday, I was cooking dinner.