Past Continuous

                                                          PASADO CONTINUO:

Para formar el pasado continuo se utiliza el verbo auxiliar “to be” y el gerundio (infinitivo + “-ing”) del verbo. El verbo auxiliar “to be” está en el pasado simple, pero ten en cuenta que “to be” es un verbo irregular.

Sujeto	Auxiliar (to be)	Gerundio
I, he, she, it	was	talking, eating, learning, doing, going…
you, we, they	were	talking, eating, learning, doing, going…

• Se usa el pasado continuo para hablar sobre acciones en un tiempo específico en el pasado.

Examples:

                Paula wasn’t living in Spain in 2005. 

                We were still working at 10 o’clock last night.

• Se usa el pasado continuo para dos acciones que estaban ocurriendo al mismo tiempo en el pasado.

Examples:

                My son was reading while I was cooking. 

                They were talking very loudly while we were trying to watch the movie. 

FORM AFFIRMATIVE:

Sujeto + verbo auxiliar (to be) + gerundio.

Examples:

                I was talking. 

                He was eating.

                They were learning. 

FORM NEGATIVE:

Sujeto + verbo auxiliar (to be) + “not” + gerundio.

Examples:

                I was not [wasn’t] talking.

                He was not [wasn’t] eating. 

                They were not [weren’t] learning. 

FORMA INTERROGATIVE:

Verbo auxiliar (to be) + sujeto + gerundio?

Examples:

                Were you talking? 

                Was he eating?

                Were they learning? 

                                 
                                                      Signal words:
                                                      when/while.



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