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Elementare - Past Continuous

Lunedì, 01 Giugno 2009
He was playing at 11 o'clock. He was playing at 11 o'clock. City image created by Freepik

Lezione di grammatica inglese online per studenti di livello elementare - Una spiegazione del past continuous con esercizi stampabili.

1) Past continuous is used for actions in process a certain moment in the past.

  • What were you doing at 9.30 yesterday?
  • In 1995 we were living in London.
  • He was playing tennis at 11 o'clock.

Positive and Negative

I
He
She
It
was (not) going outside.
We
You
They
were

Question

Where was I
He
She
It
going?
were we
you
they


2) The construction of a past continuous is similar to the present continuous tense. The verb "be" in the past tense and the -ing form of a verb.

Where are you living? Where were you living in 1999?
She is working. She was working a 11 o'clock last Monday.

 

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