EL PASADO CONTINUO PAST CONTIUOUS Formación y usos

FORMACIÓN Si aprendimos bien la formación del presente continuo, el pasado continuo será muy simple: I am (not) studying English now. You are (not) reading a book now. She is (not) watching TV. I was (not) studying English last night at 8:00PM. You were (not) reading a book last night. She was (not) watching TV. yesterday when I called her.

Si aprendimos bien la formación del presente continuo, el pasado continuo será muy simple:

I am (not) studying

English now.

You are (not)

reading a book now.

She is (not) watching TV.

I was (not) studying English last night at 8:00PM.

You were (not) reading a book last night.

She was (not) watching TV. yesterday when I called her.

Como ve, lo único que cambia es la forma del verbo ‘be’, de presente am-are-is a pasado was-were USOS Este tiempo se usa por lo general para describir lo que alguien estaba haciendo cuando algo más ocurrió. Es decir que, por lo general, hay un pasado continuo y un pasado simple. I was watching TV, when you called me last night. Keren was crying, when I called her. A man was passign the street, when the car crasshed into him. I saw an extraterrestrial when I was watching the stars. What were you doing when the twin towers collapsed? I was wathing TV at home.

Como ve, lo único que cambia es la forma del verbo ‘be’, de presente am-are-is a pasado was-were

USOS

Este tiempo se usa por lo general para describir lo que alguien estaba haciendo cuando algo más ocurrió. Es decir que, por lo general, hay un pasado continuo y un pasado simple.

I was watching TV, when you called me last night.

Keren was crying, when I called her.

A man was passign the street, when the car crasshed into him.

I saw an extraterrestrial when I was watching the stars.

What were you doing when the twin towers collapsed?

I was wathing TV at home.