And now let's review and practice a bit.
Remember that we use the past continuous vocally describe a situation or several situations in progress
happening at the same time.
In the past.
Now this is often contrasted with a sudden event in the path simple now read the following sentence
and decide which sentence describes background situation in which sentence describes the sudden event
while Emily was cooking dinner.
The phone rang
background situation sudden event the phone rang
also remember we use the past form of to be and the i n g form of the mean for to make sentences in
the past continuous.
Now read the following sentence and provide the Past Continuous Tense of the verbs in the bracken Mike
to paint the walls in the living room and to play with her toy stare Helen to get ready for a date and
Nancy to take pictures of that busy evening
Mike was painting the walls in the living room and was playing with her toys there Helen was getting
ready for her date and Nancy was taking pictures of that busy evening
remember that to four questions by inviting the subject and to be into form negatives with to be plus
not use contracted forms.
Now read the following sentences and provide the correct form of the Past Continuous Tense of the words
in the bracket what you to do at 7 p.m. yesterday ie not to celebrate my friend's birthday Mike I wanted
to I to help my boss at work instead
what were you doing at 7 p.m. yesterday I wasn't celebrating my friend's birthday like I wanted to I
was helping my boss at work instead
and now find a time markers in the following sentences it was snowing heavily yesterday I was making
snowmen with my kids the whole day
yesterday the whole day and now read the following sentence and fill in the blank with either when or
while Peter fell asleep he was watching TV
Peter fell asleep when he was watching TV.