past progressive - form Zurück Weiter how you build the past progressive: is made of two words, a form of “be” in the simple past + present participle.present participle = infinitive + ing e.g. I was working. He wasn’t working. You were working. They weren’t working. questions: you put “was/were” at the beginning of question. e.g. Was I working? Wasn’t she working? Were we working? Weren’t you working?