El pasado continuo es un tiempo verbal que se refiere a una acción del pasado que estaba en desarrollo
While I was watching TV, my sister was cooking =
Mientras yo estaba viendo la tele, mi hermana estaba cocinando
Se forma con el verbo "to be" en pasado como verbo auxiliar conjugado mas el gerundio de un verbo (forma en -ing) que denota una acción. Hay que tener en cuenta que no se puede utilizar con los verbos estáticos
- Formación del past continuous
- Usos mas importantes del past continuous
- Formación del past continuous
Forma afirmativa
Se construye con el sujeto seguido del verbo "to be" conjugado en pasado más un verbo en gerundio (forma -ing)
I was working
You were working
He was working
She was working
It was working
We were working
You were working
They were working
- Construcción del gerundio
Verbos terminados en "-e" muda, se sustituye la "-e" final por "-ing"
arrive = arriving
come = coming
place = placing
Verbos terminados en "-ie", se sustituye "-ie" final por "-y" añadiendo "-ing"
die = diying
lie = lying
tie = tying
Verbos monosílabos terminados en una sola consonante y esta sea precedida de una única
vocal, doblan la consonante final
get = getting
set = setting
stop = stopping
Verbos con mas de una sílaba terminados en una sola consonante si el acento recae en la última
vocal
admit = admitting
occur = occurring
permit = permitting
Forma negativa
Se forma simplemente añadiendo "not" al verbo "to be" en pasado. Se puede contraer (I was not working = I wasn´t working; You were not working = You weren´t working)
I was not working
You were not working
He was not working
She was not working
It was not working
We were not working
You were not working
They were not working
Forma interrogativa
Se forma invirtiendo el orden del sujeto y del verbo "to be" en pasado
Was I working?
Were you working?
Was he working?
Was she working?
Was it working?
Were we working?
Were you working?
Were they working?
- Usos mas importantes del past continuous
Para expresar acciones pasadas en proceso de realización. Cuando queremos especificar algo que estaba ocurriendo en un momento determinado del pasado.
It was raining = Estaba lloviendo
They were eating = Estaban comiendo
En estilo indirecto corresponde al presente continuo del estilo directo
"I´m working hard" Peter said = "Estoy trabajando mucho" Dijo peter (estilo directo)
Peter said (that) he was working hard = Peter dijo que estaba trabajando mucho (estilo indirecto)
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