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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!