1. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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:
5. The Past Continuous in affirmative
sentences.
The affirmative sentences in past
continuous are form with:
WAS / WERE + root verb + ING.
6. What´s the structure in the
affirmative sentences?
Subject + was/were + verb + ing +
complement.
7. 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.
8.
9. 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.
10. What´s the structure in the NEGATIVE
sentences?
Subject + was/were + not + verb + ing +
complement.
11. 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.
12.
13. 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.
14. What´s the structure in the Yes/No
Question?
Was/were + subject+ verb + ing + complement + ?
15. Examples:
Was/were + subject+ verb + ing + complement + ?
• Was he doing his homework?
• Were we buying many chocolates
in the supermarkt?
16.
17. 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.
18. What´s the structure in the WH-
Question?
Wh-question + was/were + subject + verb + ing +
complement + ?
19. Examples:
Wh-question + was/were + subject + verb + ing +
complement + ?
• Who were you visiting last night?
• Where was she going when you met
her?
