You were issued.
The past progressive tense of be is was/were being.I/He/She/It was beingWe/You/They were being
was/were sleeping = Past Continuous Tense
The term "was sitting" is a verb in the past progressive tense.
The past progressive tense of the verb "awake" is:I/He/She/It was awaking.You/We/They were awaking.
The progressive tense has the form - be + present participle.eg is/was watching.The tense of the be verb determines the tense of the progressive verb form.eg was watching is past progressive. is watching is present progressive.With an auxiliary verb have or has the present perfect progressive is formed.eg have been watching, has been watchingWith had the past perfect progressive is formed:eg had been watching
I/he/she/it was sleeping. You/we/they were sleeping.
Eating is a present participle, which can be used as a gerund, an adjective, or a verb. When present participles are used as verbs, they create the progressive (continuous) forms and require the use of an auxiliary verb to show tense. Am/is/are eatingis the present progressive tense. The past progressive tense is was/were eating.
The past tense of the verb "hear" is "heard". If you mean the word as in, "My hearing is quite good," the word is a gerund in that case, and has no past tense. The compound auxiliary verb progressive "be hearing" has the past tense "was hearing", perfective "have heard" has the past tense "had heard", and progressive-perfective "have been hearing" has the past tense "had been hearing".
I had been trying.
past: ran past perfect: had run past progressive: was/were running past perfect progressive: had been running
Yes, grinned is a verb. It's the past tense of the verb "grin".
Standing is not past tense. It is the present participle of the verb "stand". Present participles require the use of auxiliary verbs to show tense. Examples: was/were standing (past progressive) am/is/are standing (present progressive) will be standing (future progressive) Stood is the past tense of stand.