sábado, 3 de mayo de 2025

Past Progressive

 The past progressive tense is usually used to talk about actions in progress in the past that were interrupted by other actions, or to describe actions in progress at a specific time in the past.

Affirmative 

Personal Noun   ➕     Auxiliary  ➕ Verb in gerund➕  Complement
                                   (was, were ) 

Negative  

Personal Noun➕  Auxiliary  ➕Not ➕ Verb in gerund➕Complement
                             (was, were )
                            \________________/
                                             |
                                 wasn't, weren't

Interrogative

Auxiliary ➕Personal Noun➕Verb in gerund➕Complement ➕?   

(was, were )

WH Questions

     WH     ➕Auxiliary➕Personal Noun➕Verb in gerund➕Complement ➕ ?
 Questions    (was, were )    
                                  

Short Answers

(+)
Yes   ➕   Personal Noun   ➕   Auxiliary
                                                    (was, were )  

(-)
No   ➕   Personal Noun   ➕   Auxiliary  (was, were)   ➕   Not
                                                 \_______________________________/
                                                                              |
                                                                   wasn't, weren't
                                                              
With which personal noun is the auxiliary WAS and WERE used?

I - WAS
You - WERE
He- WAS
She- WAS
It- WAS
We- WERE
They- WERE

EXAMPLES

1.-I was chatting on the phone.
Yo estaba hablando por teléfono.

2.-He wasn´t playing piano.
Él no estaba tocando piano.

3.-Were you eating pizza?
¿Estabas comiendo pizza?

4.-Where was my mom drinking beer?
¿Dónde estaba mi mamá bebiendo cerveza?
 

                                                                      



Alejandra Alarcón Tolentino

                                                                          Ariadna Yamilet Vigueras Mónico

1 comentario:

  1. En su descripción deben "omitir that were interrupted by other actions", recuerden que las acciones interrumpidas es cuando utilizamos el conector WHEN, además deben acomodar los auxiliares WAS- WERE de la forma interrogativa para que se muestren abajo del auxiliar.

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