Past Continuous

Past Continuous or Past Progressive

El "past continuous" describe acciones o eventos situados en un tiempo anterior al presente, cuyo comienzo se sitúa en el pasado y que todavía no ha concluido en el momento de hablar. Dicho de otro modo, expresa una acción incompleta o inconclusa del pasado.

The "past continuous" describes actions or events situated in a time prior to the present, whose beginning is in the past and which have not yet concluded at the moment of speaking. In other words, it expresses an incomplete or unfinished action in the past.

The gerund is a non-personal form of the verb used to express continuous or ongoing actions. In English, it is formed by adding the ending "-ing" to the base verb. For example, in the sentence "He was swimming", "swimming" is the gerund of the verb "to swim".

​Gerundio

ING

ANDO
END

to sing : singing

to do : doing

to go : going

to cook : cooking

to play : playing

to study : studying

to run : running

to walk: walking

to read : reading

to write: writing

Activity

• to work

• to sleep

• to arrive

• to think

• to fly

• ​to jump

​write the gerund of the following verbs:

• to listen

• to draw

• to dance

• to to speak

• to learn

• ​to eat

Past Continuous: Affirmative sentence

Personal pronoun + to be

WAS
WERE
WAS
WAS
WAS
WERE
WERE

​To BE

I
YOU
HE
SHE
IT
WE
THEY

​P.P.

​Structure

Subject + TO BE + verb (ING) + Complement
(was/were)

• We were playing soccer at the park when it started raining.

• He was listening to music while he was cleaning his room.

• The students were discussing the assignment during class.

• I was studying for my exam yesterday evening.

• They were watching TV when I entered the room.

• She was cooking dinner while he was setting the table.

Examples:

Past Continuous: negative sentence

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Personal pronoun + to be (not)

WAS NOT WASN´T
WERE NOT WEREN´T
WAS NOT WASN´T
WAS NOT WASN´T
WAS NOT WASN´T
WERE NOT WEREN´T
WERE NOT WEREN´T

​To BE ABBREVIATION

I
YOU
HE
SHE
IT
WE
THEY

​P.P.

​Structure

Subject + Auxiliar verb (TO BE) + NOT + verb (ING) + Complement

• I wasn't listening to music while I was driving.

  (Yo no estaba escuchando música mientras estaba manejando)

• She wasn't sleeping when the phone rang.

  (Ella no estaba durmiendo cuando el tenlefono sonó)

• I was not studying Physics at that time.

  (No estaba estudiando Física en aquel entonces)

• He wasn't playing football when it started raining.

  (Él no estaba jugando futbol cuando empezó a llover)

Examples:

Change from past simple to past continuous in negative form:

​Pasado continuo

Pasado simple