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PAST PROGRESSIVE
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Created on July 4, 2023
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Transcript
Past Progressive
Uses
- DeSCRIBE AN ACTION INTERRUPTED BY OTHER
- tWO ACTIONS HAPPENING AT THE SAME MOMENT
- AN ACTION THAT WAS IN PROGRESS AT A SPECIFIC TIME
Affirmative structure
Subject+ was/were + verb ing+ complement
YESTERDAY AT 5PM
SHE WAS_______
WHAT WERE YOU DOING YESTERDAY AFTERNOON?
DURING LAST SUMMER
I WAS_______
ALL NIGHT
THEY WERE___
AT 3 PM YESTERDAY
WE WERE___
Negative structure
Subject+ was/were NOT + verb ing+ complement
MENTION
What weren't they doing?
Interrogative structure
was/were+ Subject+ verb ing+ complement?
YOU
WORKING
WHERE
were
SHE
SLEEPING
was
HE
RUNNING
was
Complete the sentences
Richard ______(work) on his computer at 9 o’clock yesterday. When I came into the living room, the cats_______ (sit) on the table. I __________(read) an article in the newspaper. The children________ (watch) a film on TV at that time. Helen ________(listen) to the radio when she heard a noise in the garden.
WHAT WERE YOU DOING when the teacher arrived?
past progressive
past simple
to use them we need key words
when while
when while
+past simple
past progressive
Lucy was walking when the car crashed
+past progressive
past simple
past progressive
Lucy was walking while the car crashed
You can write them in 2 ways
Lucy was walking when the car crashed
when the car crashed, Lucy was walking
Lucy was walking while the car crashed
while the car crashed, Lucy was walking
when while
+past simple
past progressive
+past progressive
past simple
past progressive
when while