Answer:
You can use the past progressive tense to show an ongoing past action.
Examples:
Anything like "have been", or "was [verb]".
Sentence:
The cat was playing in the garden.
-Happened in the past
-Action verb "playing"
The past continuous (also called past progressive) is a verb tense which is used to show that an ongoing past action was happening at a specific moment of interruption, or that two ongoing actions were happening at the same time.
