Learn how to use Past Continuous/Progressive through a short story in this video. We use this tense 1. for a continuous action in the past which was interrupted by another action "I was reading the label, when the jar slipped out of my hands"; 2. to describe the atmosphere "The sun was shining"; 3. for two actions which happened in the same time in the past "I was sitting in the living room and she was taking a shower"