☆Grammar Forming the Past Continuous Tense was not / were not + the -ing (Gerund) form of the verb. Past Continuous Tense negative sentence School Bus Task 1 Fill in the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in the Past Continuous Tense. 1) You the walls of his house yesterday. (not paint) He reading a 2) Mavis a horse when she broke her arm. was not / She wasn't watching TV. It book. (not ride) going to the 3) The two men heavy boxes yesterday cinema. afternoon. (not carry) You were not playing 4) I when you wake me up. (not dream) We / weren't basketball. They 5) Larry raining. clean) 6) They Spelling rules 7) Mostly the verb gets an -ing in the Present Continuous Tense. E.g.: starting, playing, looking, skiing... 8) If the verb is monosyllabic, it ends with a vowel + consonant, and the vowel is short (pronunciation) then the consonant at the end of the verb doubles. E.g.: run → running 9) If the verb ends with -1, it doubles. E.g.: travel → travelling 10) If the verb is multisyllabic, and 2nd point holds true of the last syllable then the consonant at the end of the verb doubles. E.g.: permit, admit 11) If the verb ends with a mute -e, you have to leave it out. E.g.: make → making 12) There are verbs ending with-ie, like 'lie'. In the Gerund form the 'ie' changes into 'y". e.g.: lie lying Other verbs: die, outlie, tie, untie, ...etc. Exceptions ☆ There are some verbs that we don't use in the past continuous tense. (Because they aren't action verbs.) e.g.: like, love, hate, smell, seem, believe, understand, realise, belong, know, want, need, depend, supposevi 7) The dog sleep) 8) Mr Green (not cut) 9) It get) 10) The family postman came. (not have)