PAST PROGRESSIVE

Past continuous

Modo Estructura Ejemplo Traducción

Afirmativo Sujeto + verbo auxiliar (to be) + Your dog was playing Tu perro estaba jugando con
verbo en gerundio (ing) + with its toys when I sus juguetes cuando llegué
complemento arrived

Negativo Sujeto + verbo auxiliar (to be) + I was not studying No estaba estudiando Física en
not + verbo en gerundio (ing) + Physics at that time. aquel entonces
complemento

Interrogativo Verbo auxiliar (to be) + sujeto + Were you eating candies ¿Estabas comiendo dulces
verbo en gerundio (ing) + when I entered the cuando entré al cuarto?
complemento + ? room?
Pasado.Prog. Subject Aux Prt verb -ing
I was importing goods.
Affirmative You, we, they were recruiting staff.
Sentence
He, she, it was trying to improve.

I was not performing well.

Negative
You, we, they were not buying goods.
sentence
He, she, it was not exporting goods.
Was I working?
Interrogative Were you, we, they studying?
Sentence
Was he, she, it selling houses?
 TIME EXPRESSIONS

INGLÉS ESPAÑOL

then entonces

yesterday ayer

last night anoche

last week la semana pasada

last month el mes pasado

a few days ago hace unos días

 Examples

1. You were going to the swimming pool when I saw you.

2. They were dancing salsa when their baby woke up.
3. He was taking photos of his dog when the camera broke.
4. It was raining yesterday when I came to pick you up.
5. She was talking to him while her son was doing his homework.
6. We were not snoring when you were working.
7. They were not sleeping together that year.
8. Was Alan running behind the car when he broke his leg?
9. What was he doing this time yesterday?
10. Were you having a good conversation when I interrupted you?
Put in order and make sentences

1. export / exporting - meet/ meeting - do / doing

2. analyse/analysing - leave/leaving - behave/behaving
3. stop/stopping - put/putting - run/running
4. die/dying - lie/lying
5. try/ trying - lay / laying
6. refer/ referring - occur/occurring
7. travel / travelling
 I, she, he, it was
+ working.
you, we, they were
(full form)
I, she, he, it
was not
you, we, they
were not
– working.
(short form)
I, she, he, it
Conclusion wasn’t
you, we, they
Past continuous: form weren’t
We use was/were + the -ing form of the verb.
? Was I, she, he, it
working?
+ Were you, we, they
(full form)
I, she, he, it
Was not
you, we, they
Were
?– working?
(short form)
I, she, he, it
Wasn’t
you, we, they
Weren’t