I/he/she/it was camping.
You/we/they were camping.
There are two types:Past progressive tensePast perfect progressive tense
the form of the past tense are past progressive,past perfect progressive,past perfect simple.
present progressive, past progressive, and future progressive
There are three progressive verb forms in English: present progressive (am/is/are + verb-ing), past progressive (was/were + verb-ing), and future progressive (will be + verb-ing).
There are four progressive verb forms in English: present progressive (am/is/are + verb+ing), past progressive (was/were + verb+ing), future progressive (will be + verb+ing), and present perfect progressive (has/have been + verb+ing).
Past progressive tense.
The past progressive (past continuous) is "was visiting." (were visiting) The past perfect progressive is "had been visiting."
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 progressive tense of study is:I/He/She/It was studying.You/We/They were studying.
The past progressive of think is was/were thinking. The past perfect of see is had seen.
Was/were starting is the past progressive tense of start.
Present progressive, past progressive, and future progressive