ENT203 PAST CONTINUOUS

Which tense do I use in this sentence?

"At 7 0’clock this morning I was having my breakfast."

• Simple Past

• Past continuous

• Past Perfect

"Was+Ving" use for......

• She/ He/It

• She/ They/It

• Third singular person

"Were+V-ing" can use for.....

• Plural subjects

• He/She/It

• Singular Subjects

Past Continuous is used to express activities in progress at a particular time in the past

• True

• False

"When the phone rang, I was having a shower." ==> "I was having a shower" Past Continuous

is used to express

• an interrupted

  past activity

• An activity at present

• An activity finished in the past

She ......... when she.......... a dolphin.

• was swimming/saw

• swam/saw

• was swimming/ was seeing

1. She was swimming.

2. She saw a dolphin.

Which action is longer?

• 1

• 2

This sentence is "Right" or "Wrong"?

"While she was swimming, she saw a dolphin."

• Right

• Wrong

Past continuous also describes 2 continuing actions occuring in the same period of time.

• True

• False

They were eating, and the music was playing.

• True

• False