4. “be” in continuous tense.

4. “be” in continuous tense.
I guess you have mastered “be” (is, am, are) for simple present tense and now we will study two another “be’s” they are “was and were” for past tense.
“ continuous tense” is also called progressive tense for their function which is telling an activity that is happening now or going on activity. Further discussion will be posted later.
Don’t even try to forget that we are now talking about activity, event, occurance and so on you can name it, so we use “verb” in our sentence or our sentence contains “verb”. I should say you focus on on the verb and the “be”
Present tense
I am sleeping
He is drinking
She is eating
It is working
We are swimming
You are dancing
They are going

Past tense
I was sleeping
He was drinking
She was eating
It was working
We were swimming
You were dancing
They were going

For your information, again, you can change the positive sentences in to negative or interrogative by following these formulas.
Positive: subject + be + verb ing
Negative: subject + be + not + verb ing
Interrogative: be + subject + verb ing

I just write simply “be”. Remember “is, am, and are” are “be” so are “was and were” it just depend on the tenses, if present progressive you use the first and past progressive is the later. Look at the above example.

compare the use of be here with the use of "be" before adverb.