PAST CONTINUOUS USOS O Passado contnuo usado basicamente

PAST CONTINUOUS

USOS ü O Passado contínuo é usado, basicamente, para descrever três tipos de ações:

1. Aquelas que estavam ocorrendo num tempo dado no passado The girl was studying in Greece in 1988.

2. Aquelas que estavam ocorrendo num dado tempo do passado quando outra ação veio a ocorrer (interrompendo a ação anterior). Nesse caso, teremos duas sentenças:

Uma no passado contínuo ( a que se refere ao fato mais antigo) e outra no passado simples ( a que se refere ao fato mais recente). Geralmente utilizase, nesses casos, o conectivo “when”.

The girl was studying in Greece WHEN the conflicts started. PAST CONTINUOUS SIMPLE PAST

3. Aquelas que estavam ocorrendo simultaneamente num tempo dado do passado. Neste caso, teremos sempre duas sentenças no passado contínuo e, geralmente, a presença do conectivo “while”.

The girl was studying in Greece WHILE the boy was working in Belgium. PAST CONTINUOUS

FORMAÇÃO Affirmative: Subject + to be + verb + ing I was sleeping

Negative: Subject + to be + NOT+ verb + ing WAS NOT = WASN’T WERE NOT = WEREN’T I wasn’t sleeping

Interrogative: To be + subject + verb + ing? Were you sleeping?

SPELLING General Rule - ING WORK – WORKING Peter was working hard TEACH – TEACHING You were teaching French PLAY – PLAYING They were playing tennis

VERBS ENDING IN IE: DIE – DYING I was dying to finish my task TIE – TYING I was tying the boat

Monosyllable verbs ending in: CVC – M, N, P, T, G SWIM – SWIMMING They were swimming PLAN – PLANNING They were planning a nice party SHOP – SHOPPING The girls were shopping at the mall.

Verbs ending in consonant + E: WRITE – WRITING Josh was writing a nice letter TAKE – TAKING My mom was taking the wrong bus when I called her.

Verbs with more than one syllable: ü ü ü CVC M, N, P, T, G LAST STRESSED SYLLABLE FORGET – FORGETTING Dennis was forgetting his book when he opened his backpack. BEGIN – BEGINNING Suzi was beginning everything over again.

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