PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

1. ABVERBS: yesterday, yesterday mornig, at 2 o´clock yesterday,last saturday on sunday last week

   • BE. HAVE (own), WANT, KNOW are never in the past continuous
   • Action happenning qickiy one after another are in the past simple tense

2. FORM

   • Arfimative (+)
     • I /HE /SHE /IT
       • Was doing
     • WE /YOU / THEY
       • Were doing
   • negative(-)
     • WE/ YOU/ THEY
       • weren´t doing
       • were not doing
     • I/HE /SHE/IT
       • was not doing
       • Wasn´t doing
   • cuetion (?)
     • WE / YOU /THEY
       • (WH..)Were subj. doing
     • I /HE / SHE /IT
       • (WH..)Was subj. doing

3. USE: we use the past progressive for an action that was already happening at a particular time in the past

4. USAGE

   • changing situation in the past.
     • the leaves on the trees were beginning to fall.
   • repeated actions in the past
     • henry was jogging every daywhen i knew him.
     • she was trying to find a job
   • two actions at the same time in the past
     • i was playing a computer game and my brother was listening to an MP3 player
     • my wife was ironing and i was washing uo.
   • Something was happenig at a give time in the past
     • i was reading a book at 6 o´clock
     • they were watchiing TV at 8:25
     • she was doing her honework at 5:30