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🔰The Past Continuous tense 🔰الزمن الماضي المستمر نستخدم الزمن الماضي المستمر للتعبير عن احداث حدثت في الماضي و استمرت لفترة من الزمن 🔻Continuing process 🔻استمرارية الفعل يُستخدم للتأكيد على استمرار فعل أو فترة ذلك الفعل. و لكن إذا أردنا الحديث تكلم عن الحدث الماضي كحقيقة ثابتة ماضية فإننا نستخدم الماضي بسيط. ✨While I was driving home, Peter was trying desperately to contact me. ✨Were you expecting any visitors? ✨Sorry, were you sleeping? ✨I was just making some coffee. ✨I was thinking about it last night. ✨In the 1990s few people were using mobile phones. 🔻A background action 🔻حدث مُرافق غالبا يستخدم كخلفية لحدث آخر مُزامن و مُرافق له في الحدوث. ✨I was walking in the street when I suddenly fell over. ✨She was talking to me on the phone and it suddenly went dead. ✨They were still waiting for the plane when I spoke to them. ✨The company was declining rapidly before he took charge. ✨We were just talking about it before you arrived. ✨I was making a presentation in front of 500 people when the microphone stopped working. @EnglishGrammarSecrets