past progressive

noun Grammar. (in English)

a verb form consisting of an auxiliary be in the past tense followed by a present participle and used especially to indicate that an action or event was incomplete or in progress at a point of reference in the past, as was sleeping in I was sleeping when the phone rang.

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Also called past continuous.

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past progressive
noun
a progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past; "'I had been running' is an example of the past progressive"

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