Zusammenfassung der Ressource
PAST
CONTINUOUS
- FORMS
- POSITIVE
- I was speaking
- NEGATIVE
- I was not speaking.
- QUESTION
- Was I speaking?
- EXCEPTIONS
- ADDING -ING
- final e is dropped (but:
ee is not changed)
- EXAMPLE: come - coming
agree - agreeing
- after a short, stressed
vowel, the final consonant is
doubled
- EXAMPLE: sit – sitting
- l as final consonant
after a vowel is
doubled (in British
English)
- EXAMPLE: travel –
travelling
- final ie becomes y
- EXAMPLE: lie – lying
- Use of Past Continuous
- puts emphasis on the course of an
action in the past EXAMPLE:He was
playing football.
- two actions happening at the
same time (in the past)
EXAMPLE: While she was
preparing dinner, he was
washing the dishes.
- action going on at a certain
time in the past EXAMPLE:
When I was having breakfast,
the phone suddenly rang.