Past Progressive Tense Presented by:Sarah,Anusha,Ayesha and Arpitha

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

TO IDENTIFY PAST PROGRESSIVE TENSE

How Can We Identify a Past Progressive Tense ?We can identify a past progressive tense by having was/were in the sentence and the verb should be having ‘ing’ in the end.For example We were having a lot of fun at the party yesterday.

How do we make the Past Continuous Tense?

SUBJECT + AUXILIARY VERB +

MAIN VERB

CONJUGATED IN SIMPLE PAST TENSE

PRESENT PARTICIPLE

WAS/WERE BASE + ING

NEGATIVE SENTENCES

For negative sentences in the past continuous tense, we insert not between the auxiliary verb and main verb. For question sentences, we exchange the subject and auxiliary verb. Look at these example sentences with the past continuous tense:

NEGATIVE SENTENCES

SUBJECTSUBJECT AUXILIARY AUXILIARY VERBVERB

MAIN MAIN VERBVERB

+ I WAS WATCHING TV

+ YOU WERE WORKING HARD

- HE,SHE,IT WAS NOT HELPING MARY

- WE WERE NOT JOKING

? WERE YOU BEING SILLY?

? WERE THEY PLAYING FOOTBALL?

PAST CONTINOUS

The farmer was working atThe farmer was working at 6 o’clock yesterday evening6 o’clock yesterday evening

We use the past continuous to say that somebody was in the middle of doing something at a certain time.

This time yesterday the hairdresser was working

The past simple and the past continuous do not mean exactly the same. Compare:

When Mary arrived, we were having dinner.

This means that we already started dinner before Mary arrived

When Mary arrived, we had dinner.

This means that Mary arrived first and then we had dinner.

What were Mike and Louise doing yesterday?

Quiz

Fill in the blanks

It was _______ (get) darker (past progressive) .

We were ______(listen) to the radio all evening(past progressive)

Make a sentence with the word

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