No
"Were finding" is the past continuous tense.
The word "is" is followed by a past tense verb when forming the past continuous tense, such as "He was eating," where "was" is the past tense of "is" and "eating" is the past participle of "eat" used in the continuous form.
This is past continuous tense.
The three kinds of past tense are simple past, past continuous, and past perfect. Simple past is used to describe a completed action at a specific time, past continuous describes an action that was ongoing in the past, and past perfect is used to show that one action in the past happened before another.
Yes. For example, past continuous tense: I was relying on you.
Yes, past continuous tense is the same as past progressive tense. It is used to indicate an action that was ongoing or in progress in the past. Both terms refer to the same grammatical concept.
The past perfect continuous tense is used to express long actions in the past before another action in the past started.It follows this structure:Subject + Had + Been + Present Participle.The past perfect tense, similarly, is used to express an action in the past before another action in the past.It follows this structure:Subject + Had + Past Participle.
Yes it can.
You use the imperfect tense (aka past continuous) to describe ongoing actions in the past.
'Had been laughing' is in the past perfect continuous tense. This tense is used to describe an action that started in the past, continued for a period of time, and was still ongoing when another action occurred.
Time!'I was running' (past continuous) tells us that the action was in the past and has finished.'I am running' (present continuous) tells us that the action started at some time in the past and is still continuing at the present time.
Past continuous.past continuous is past be verb + ing participle. (not a verb in the past)eg was eating / were eatingProbably you are asking about passive tensefor example is askedThat question is asked everyday.Passive tense changes according to past or present or continuous etcpresent simple - is askedpast simple - was askedpresent continuous - is being askedpast continuous - was being askedpresent perfect - has been askedpast perfect - had been asked