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1、Past Continuous Tense
1. The Past Continuous tense is an important tense in English. We use it to say what we were in the middle of doing at a particular moment in the past.
2. Structure:
l The past progressive tense (also sometimes called "past continuous") is formed by using was/were + main ver
2、b + ing (was/were doing), as in, "We were eating dinner when the phone rang."
l Verbs usually cannot be used in past continuous tense：agree、be、believe、belong、care、forge、hate、have、hear、know、like、love、mean、mind、notice、own、remember、seem、suppose、understand、want、wish, etc. Example:
Wrong：I was knowing
3、 the answer. (×)
Right：I knew the answer. ( √ )
3. Temporal Adverbials:
this morning、the whole morning、all day yesterday、from nine to ten last evening、when、while, etc.
4. Basic Sentence Patterns:
?
subject
auxiliary verb
?
main verb
?
(+)l Positive sentence
I
was
?
watching
TV.
You
4、
were
?
working
hard.
(-)l Negative sentence
He, she, it
was
not
helping
Mary.
We
were
not
joking.
?
(?)l General question
Were
you
?
being
silly?
Were
they
?
playing
football?
(?)l Special question
What was
he/she/it
eating?
What were
you
doing?
5. How
5、to use the Past Continuous Tense
1) The Past Continuous tense expresses action at a?particular moment?in the past. The action started before that moment but has not finished at that moment. For example, “yesterday I watched a film on TV. The film started at 7pm and finished at 9pm”. Thus, “At 8pm y
6、esterday, I was watching TV.”
When we use the Past Continuous tense, our listener usually knows or understands what time we are talking about. Look at these examples:
l I?was working?at 10pm last night.
l What?were?you?doing?at 10pm last night?
l What?were?you?doing?when he arrived?
(“when he
7、 arrived" is also a way of defining the time)
l She?was cooking?when I telephoned her.
l We?were having?dinner when it started to rain.
2) It's also common to use this tense to talk about two on-going actions that were happening at the same time in the past, as in,
"While Justin Timberlake was
8、finishing his new album, his fans were waiting for it to come out."
3) We can also use this tense to talk about actions in the past that took place over time, as in,
"I couldn't sleep last night because dogs were barking the whole night."
NOTICE:
·when + short action (Past Simple)
·while + long action (Past Continuous
past continuous 過去進(jìn)行時 英文版講解
