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UNIVERSIDAD EVANGÉLICA DE EL SALVADOR
Licenciatura en traducción e interpretación del idioma inglés
Name: Noemi Abigail Romero Armas.
Teacher´s name: Soraya Osorio.
Topic: Past Continuous.
Subject: English.
Topic:
Past Continuous Tense.
How do we use the Past Continuous Tense?
we can use the Past Continuous to set the background for a story or tell about events in progress in the past . use the simple past for completed actions in the past.
The Past Continuous in affirmative sentences.
The Past Continuous in negative sentences.
The Past Continuous
in Yes/No Question.
The Past Continuous
in WH- Question.
The Past Continuous Tense
is classified in:
The Past Continuous in affirmative sentences.
The affirmative sentences in past continuous are form with: WAS / WERE + root verb + ING.
What´s the structure in the affirmative sentences?
Subject + was/were + verb + ing + complement.
Examples:
-Richard was doing his homework.
- Dan and Alex were playing tennis all day.
- Susan was cooking all morning.
Subject + was/were + verb + ing + complement.
The Past Continuous in negative sentences.
The negative sentences in past continuous is formed by putting NOT after WAS / WERE and before the main verb , also you can contract wasn´t and weren´t.
What´s the structure in the NEGATIVE sentences?
Subject + was/were + not + verb + ing + complement.
Examples:
- She wasn’t reading at 8 o’clock last night .
- They weren’t playing basketball.
- He was not walking all the week.
Subject + was/were + not + verb + ing + complement.
The Past Continuous in Yes/No Question.
To form questions such as yes / no in past continuous we have to change the order of subject and auxiliary verb (was / were), the rest of the sentence does not change.
What´s the structure in the Yes/No Question?
Was/were + subject+ verb + ing + complement + ?
Examples:Was/were + subject+ verb + ing + complement + ?
• Was he doing his homework?
• Were we buying many chocolates in the supermarkt?
The Past Continuous in WH-Question.
In these questions we must change the order of the subject and the auxiliary verb, as we did in the type yes / no, and replace the information we asked for the corresponding interrogative particle.
What´s the structure in the WH-Question?
Wh-question + was/were + subject + verb + ing + complement + ?
Examples:Wh-question + was/were + subject + verb
+ ing + complement + ?
• Who were you visiting last night?
• Where was she going when you met her?
End of the presentation!