what form of verb comes after was?
Either a present participle or past participle can follow "was": He was eating dinner. (past continuous tense) He was eaten by a lion. (passive past tense)
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Either a present participle or past participle can follow "was":
He was eating dinner. (past continuous tense)
He was eaten by a lion. (passive past tense)