consentpastcontinuous(过去进行时英文版讲解)

2021年1月10日发(作者：龚如心)
Past Continuous Tense
1. The Past Continuous tense is an important tense in English. We use it
to say what we were in the middle of doing at a particular moment in
the past.
2. Structure:
The
past progressive tense
(also sometimes called
continuousis formed by using was/were + main verb + ing
(was/were doing), as in,
rang.
Verbs usually cannot be used in past continuous tense：ag ree、
be、believe、belong、care、forge、hate、have、hea r、know、like、
love、mean、mind、notice、own、remember 、seem、suppose、understand、
want、wish, etc. Example:
Wrong：I was knowing the answer. (×)
Right：I knew the answer. ( √ )
3. Temporal Adverbials:
this morning、the whole morning、all day yesterday、from nine to ten
last evening、when、while, etc.
4. Basic Sentence Patterns:
auxiliary

(+) Positive
sentence
You
(-)
were
not
subject
I
verb
was


main
verb
watching
working
helping

TV.
hard.
Mary. He, she, was