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[General] The bin was overflowing with rubbish.

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Hello.

There is a sentence like that: 'The bin was overflowing with rubbish.'


My question: Is 'was overflowing' Past Continous?
 
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Note that there was no need to capitalise "past continuous".
 
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In other words - 'was' is past simple, and 'overflowing' is past participle? Am I right?
 
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