PAST CONTINUOUS / 'OPISNI' PRETEKLIK 

S tem časom opisuješ dejanje, ki se je dogajalo v nekem določenem časovnem trenutku oz. obdobju v preteklosti.

Zgledi:

Čas dejanja je omenjen: At six o'clock I was having breakfast.
                                        At midnight I was still watching television.

V povezavi s past simple: When the teacher came in, I was fighting.
                                          When I woke up, it was snowing.