Past continuous
Past continuous Forma affermativa ( )
Forma negativa ( )
Forma estesa
Forma estesa
Forma contratta
Forma estesa
I was eating you were walking
I was not eating you were not walking
I wasn’t eating you weren’t walking
Was I eating? Were you walking?
he was reading she was playing it was raining
he was not reading she was not playing it was not raining
he wasn’t reading she wasn’t playing it wasn’t raining
Was he reading? Was she playing? Was it raining?
we were crying you were leaving they were shopping
we were not crying you were not leaving they were not shopping
we weren’t crying you weren’t leaving they weren’t shopping
Were we crying? Were you leaving? Were they shopping?
What were you doing at seven o’clock this morning?
I was sleeping in bed!
Il Past continuous si costruisce con: soggetto + verbo be al passato (was/were) + forma in -ing del verbo principale Risposte brevi Were you laughing? Was I dreaming? Was he sitting? Was she reading? Was it snowing? Were you running? Were we smiling? Were they eating?
Yes, I was. No, I wasn’t. Yes, you were. No, you weren’t. Yes, he was. No, he wasn’t. Yes, she was. No, she wasn’t. Yes, it was. No, it wasn’t. Yes, we were. No, we weren’t. Yes, you were. No, you weren’t. Yes, they were. No, they weren’t.
Il verbo alla forma in -ing (vedi pagina 48) rimane sempre invariato, mentre si coniuga il verbo be al passato (vedi Be Past simple pagine 53-54). I wasn’t doing a project, I was surfing the Net.
Forma interrogativa (?)
I was making breakfast…
Nelle risposte brevi si ripete il pronome personale e il verbo be. Yes, + soggetto + verbo. No, + soggetto + verbo + not (n’t). Were you leaving? No, we weren’t. Stavate partendo? No. Was it raining? Yes, it was! Stava piovendo? Sì! Quando si usa una parola interrogativa (What…? Where…? Why…? ecc.) questa va messa prima del verbo be. parola interrogativa + verbo + soggetto What were you doing? Che cosa stavi facendo? Where was she going? Dove stava andando? Why was I crying? Perché stavo piangendo?
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