PAST CONTINUOUS Tense

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PAST CONTINUOUS Tense
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Whats the structure?
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Subject was/were Verbing

• eg she was talking.
• I was singing.
• They were shouting.

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Negative (not)Subject was/were not
verbing

• egshe was not (wasn't) talking.
• I was not (wasn't) singing.
• They were not (werent) shouting.

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Questions (?) Was/Were subject Verbing

• Were you going?
• Was he, she, it going?
• Were we, you, they going?

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When do we use this tense?
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Past continuous, function

• To show an action which was happening at a time
  when another was completed.
• while, when and as.
• eg While I was walking home, it stopped raining.
  
• He was doing his homework when I came in.

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The past continuous is used to show an
action that was happening at a certain time in
the past. eg Paul was doing his homework at
8pm last night. The girls were practicing for
the concert all the afternoon.

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to show two separate actions that happening at
the same time in the past.

• e.g. They were singing while Mei Lan was playing
  the piano.
• While we were eating, they were dancing.

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to replace the present continuous tense in
indirect speech(????).

• e.g.
• John said that he was doing his assignments.
• Mary told me that she was watching TV.

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-ing forms

• with most verbs we add ing
• e.g. going, singing
• answering
• walking
• jumping

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• With verbs that end(??) with ie, we change ie
  to ying
• e.g. lie lying
• die dying
• tie tying

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• With the verbs that end with a consonant (??)
  -e, we deleted the e and add ing
• egwrite writing
• smile smiling
• come coming
• live living
• take taking
• queue - queuing

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• With verbs that end with one vowel 1 consonant
  (??) (g, m, n, p, t, d), we double the
  consonant
• eg getting, running, swimming, jogging, kidding,
  stoppingetc.

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• But note that we do not double the consonant
  (??),
• When it is a y or w,
• eg staying, buying, borrowing, playing,
• When the last syllable is not stressed
• visiting, listening, wondering,

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• But note also that we double the l at the end
  of verbs, when the last syllable(??) is not
  stressed(??)
• e.g. travel travelling

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• www.edunet.com/english/grammar/Tenses2.cfm
• http//www.cbooks.org/wgame.asp

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