Past continuous for the context and background.

过去进行时用于提供上下文与背景。

Did you spot the past continuous?

你有发现过去进行时吗？

The present continuous, the past continuous, the present perfect continuous, the past perfect continuous and the future continuous.

现在进行时、过去进行时、现在完成进行时、过去完成进行时和将来进行时。

It's got to be the past perfect continuous!

应该是过去完成进行时。

Let's try it present continuous to past continuous.

让我们试试现在进行时变成过去进行时。

You heard him using the past simple and past continuous.

你应该听见了，他用的是一般过去时和过去进行时。

There is also the past perfect and past continuous tenses.

还有过去完成时和过去进行时。

See if you can spot examples of the past continuous.

看看你能不能找出过去进行时的例子。

The first will be the past continuous.

第一回合是过去进行时。

To give background to a story, you use the past continuous.

为了给一个故事提供背景，你可以使用过去进行时。

Focus now on the past perfect and the past perfect continuous.

请注意过去完成时和过去完成进行时。

So I'm going to tell you about the past perfect continuous.

所以我要跟你们讲讲过去完成进行时。

" Had been walking" is the past perfect continuous of the verb " walk" .

“Had been walking” 是动词“walk”的过去完成进行时。

This is the past simple and this one is the past continuous.

这是个一般过去时，这个是过去进行时。

What is the formula for the past continuous?

过去进行时的格式是怎样的呢？

But we heard another past tense form too: the past continuous.

过去进行时。

Do we usually use the past continuous with repeated actions?

我们通常会用过去进行时和反复的动词连用吗？

Events in the past perfect always take place before the past simple or past continuous.

过去完成时里的事件通常发生在一般过去时或者过去进行时之前。

Why do we use the past continuous when we're telling stories?

为什么我们在讲故事的时候要使用过去进行时？

The past continuous is useful for that too.

过去进行时在这方面也很起作用。