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COMMON CORE

Teacher: HASSAN KHEDDA

Unit- 08: Science and technology

Grammar:

Simple Past VS Past Continuous

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Past Continuous

What is past continuous?

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The past continuous is a verb tense which is used to show that an ongoing past action was happening at a specific moment of interruption, or that two ongoing actions were happening at the same time.

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Simple past VS Past Continuous

Past Continuous forms:

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Affirmative: subject + was/were + verb + ing�Negative: subject + was/were + not + verb + ing�Question: was/were + subject + verb + ing ?

Examples:

        • You were studying when she called.
        • You were not studying when she called.
        • Were you studying when she called?

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022

Unit: 8

Grammar

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Uses

Examples

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Interrupted Action in the Past

  • I was watching TV when she called.
  • When the phone rang, she was writing a letter.
  • While we were having the lunch, it started to rain.

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Parallel Actions

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  • I was studying while he was making dinner.
  • While Ellen was reading, Tim was watching television.
  • Were you listening while he was talking?

Specific Time as an Interruption

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  • Last night at 6 PM, I was eating dinner.
  • At midnight, we were still driving through the desert.
  • Yesterday at this time, I was sitting at my desk at work.

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Affirmative

Negative

Interrogative

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I

He

She

It

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We

You

They

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I

He

She

It

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We

You

They

I

He

Was She

It

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We

Were You

They

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was watching TV.

Were watching TV.

was not watching TV.

were not watching TV.

watching TV?

watching TV ?

Contractions:

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Was not = wasn’t

Were not = weren’t

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arrived

Was writing

Was crossing

saw

Woke up

Were they shouting

Were fixing

opened

Was skating

Did Mary break

knocked

Was sleeping

saw

Was not talking

Was watching

went