General English Level 3 GELEV3 Unit 05 Topic 02.doc  LANGUAGE FOCUS 05d Verb tenses revision 4. The past continuous tense Philip writes: Water was pouring in under the door of the cabin. We use the past continuous tense to talk about a repeated or continuous action in the past. Pedro says: We were walking across the sand to our cabin, when I noticed that the sky on the horizon looked rather grey. We also use the past continuous to describe a situation that existed when an event happened. LOOK not I He She It was We You They were n't not working. Was I he she it Were we you they waiting? 175 QUESTLANGUAGE