Transcript Dia 1 - Morina

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE
Form
PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE
Affirmative
Yes, …
Interrogative
?
No, …
Negative
I
was
Was
I
I
was
You
were
Were
you
You
were
Was
he
she
It
He
She
It
was
Were
we
you
they
We
You
They
were
He
She
It
We
You
They
was
were
working.
working?
not
working.
PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE
Use
We use past continuous:
• To express an action which continued for a period of time in the past, but
whose limits are not known or are not important:
We were working in the factory.
• To indicate gradual development:
He was making me nervous.
• To express an interrupted action in the past:
I was talking to my mother when you called me.
• To express an exact moment in the past when an action was taking place
Yesterday at this time, I was talking with my new girlfriend.
PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE
We use “when” to indicate the time when the action was taking place
When I saw her in the park, she was talking to someone on the phone.
She was having dinner when I arrived.
When she was sleeping, someone rang her doorbell.
We use “while” to indicate two actions happening at the same time.
He was reading a book while she was listening to music.
He was writing a letter while she was working on her computer?
She was sleeping while he was talking to her.
Use