UNIT VI
PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE
(Bentuk lampau sedang
berlangsung)
A. Penggunaan
- Untuk menyatakan suatu peristiwa yang sedang berlangsung pada waktu lampau.
- Untuk menyatakan suatu peristiwa yang sedang berlangsung dimana ada peristiwa lain terjadi, pada waktu lampau.
- Untuk menerangkan peristiwa yang sedang terjadi, secara bersamaan dengan peristiwa lain di waktu lampau.
B. Keterangan waktu
Keterangan waktu untuk Past Continuous Tense antara lain
:
-
… when : ketika
-
while : sementara
-
… as : ketika
-
the whole day yesterday
-
all day yesterday
-
all (morning, night)
C. Susunan kalimat
- Positive (+) : Subject + was/were + V-ing
Subject
|
be 2
|
Verb
I + ing
|
Object
|
I
|
was
|
writing
|
a
story
|
You
We
They
|
were
|
buying
cleaning
playing
|
a
shirt
the
room
tennis
|
He
She
It
|
was
|
going
giving
swimming
|
to
school
a
present
very
fast
|
- Negative (-) : Subject + was/were + not + Ving
Subject
|
be
2
|
not
|
Verb
I + ing
|
Object
|
I
|
was
|
not
|
writing
|
a
story
|
You
We
They
|
were
|
buying
cleaning
playing
|
a
shirt
the
room
tennis
|
|
He
She
It
|
was
|
going
giving
swimming
|
to
school
a
present
very
fast
|
- Interrogative (?)
Was/were + Subject + verb ing ?
Was/
Were
|
Subject
|
Verb
I + ing
|
Object
|
Was
|
I
|
writing
|
a
story?
|
Were
|
You
We
They
|
buying
cleaning
playing
|
a
shirt?
the
room?
tennis?
|
Was
|
He
She
It
|
going
giving
swimming
|
to
school?
a
present?
very
fast?
|
Past Continuous Tense
I was singing |
How do we make the Past Continuous Tense?
The structure of the past continuous tense is:subject | + | auxiliary verb BE | + | main verb |
conjugated in simple past tense | present participle | |||
was were |
base + ing |
subject | auxiliary verb | main verb | |||
+ | I | was | watching | TV. | |
+ | You | were | working | hard. | |
- | He, she, it | was | not | helping | Mary. |
- | We | were | not | joking. | |
? | Were | you | being | silly? | |
? | Were | they | playing | football? |
How do we use the Past Continuous Tense?
The past continuous tense expresses action at a particular moment in the past. The action started before that moment but has not finished at that moment. For example, yesterday I watched a film on TV. The film started at 7pm and finished at 9pm.At 8pm yesterday, I was watching TV. | |||||
past | present | future | |||
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At 8pm, I was in the middle of watching TV. |
- I was working at 10pm last night.
- They were not playing football at 9am this morning.
- What were you doing at 10pm last night?
- What were you doing when he arrived?
- She was cooking when I telephoned her.
- We were having dinner when it started to rain.
- Ram went home early because it was snowing.
Some verbs cannot be used in continuous/progressive tenses.
We often use the past continuous tense to "set the scene" in stories.
We use it to describe the background situation at the moment when the
action begins. Often, the story starts with the past continuous tense
and then moves into the simple past tense. Here is an example:" James Bond was driving through town. It was raining. The wind was blowing hard. Nobody was walking in the streets. Suddenly, Bond saw the killer in a telephone box..."
Past Continuous Tense + Simple Past Tense
We often use the past continuous tense with the simple past tense. We use the past continuous tense to express a long action. And we use the simple past tense to express a short action that happens in the middle of the long action. We can join the two ideas with when or while.In the following example, we have two actions:
- long action (watching TV), expressed with past continuous tense
- short action (telephoned), expressed with simple past tense
past | present | future | |||||||||
Long action. | |||||||||||
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Short action. |
- I was watching TV when you telephoned.
We use:
- when + short action (simple past tense)
- while + long action (past continuous tense)
I was walking past the car | when | it exploded. | |
When | the car exploded | I was walking past it. | |
The car exploded | while | I was walking past it. | |
While | I was walking past the car | it exploded. |
- "Watching TV" took a few hours. "Telephoned" took a few seconds.
- "Walking past the car" took a few seconds. "Exploded" took a few milliseconds.
We use the past continuous tense to describe a past action over a period of time.
Past Continuous Timeline
For example:Q) "What were they doing yesterday?" A) "They were working all day."
It can be used to describe what someone was doing at a particular point in time.
For example:
Q) "What were you doing at 7.30 last night?" A) "I was watching television."
The past continuous can also be used to show that an activity frequently took place over a period of time.
Q) "What did you do on holiday?" A) "I went skiing a lot."
Often the past continuous is mixed with the past simple to show what was happening when something happened. The past continuous refers to the longer event and the simple past to the event that interrupted it.
For example:
"I was driving to work when I crashed my car."
or
As I was driving to work, I crashed my car."
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