The document summarizes the use of the past continuous tense in English. It discusses how the past continuous can be used to describe background events or ongoing actions in the past. It then provides examples of how to form past continuous sentences in the affirmative, negative, yes/no questions, and WH-questions. Specifically, it notes that affirmative sentences use was/were + verb+ing, negatives add not, yes/no questions invert the subject and auxiliary verb, and WH-questions begin with an interrogative before the inverted subject and auxiliary verb.

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.

2. Past Continuous Tense.

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.

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.

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?

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?

20. End of the
presentation!