tailieunhanh - Active grammar 2 part 13

Tham khảo tài liệu 'active grammar 2 part 13', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | In A Strange Dream the writer tells us what people were doing at a certain time in the past. The tense for this is the past continuous. We were walking along Town Street. I was carrying the flowers. Dad was holding his wallet. Someone in the bank was firing a gun. Compare Sentence A and Sentence B below. Their meanings are not the same. In Sentence A the action is finished. In Sentence B the action is not finished. Did you know Another name for the past continuous tense is the past progressive tense. 84 Verbs Writers sometimes use the past continuous to tell us what was happening at the beginning of a story. 1 was a beautiful morning in the middle of May. The sun was shining the birds were singing and everyone in Upper Dingleton was feeling glad to be alive. Jenny was busy in her kitchen. She was making a special pie for dinner that night. The two types of past tense simple and continuous are sometimes used together. Jenny was busy in her kitchen. She was making a special pie for dinner that night when suddenly the telephone rang. While she was washing her hands to answer the telephone someone knocked loudly on the front door. Grammar Help You can use the past continuous tense in stories to describe a particular scene. Grammar Help You can use the past continuous tense for an action which is interrupted by a second action. For the second action you use the past simple tense. While your class was learning about the past simple my class was learning about the past continuous. You can use the past continuous tense Tor two long actions which happen at the y same time. Past continuous tense 85 To moke the past continuous tense you use two verbs. Verb 1 Verb 2 was carrying were holding Verb 1 is called a helping verb. In a continuous tense the helping verb is always a part of the verb be. 1 present I continuous I am playing 1 you are eating 1 he is talking 1 they are running 1 1 past 1 continuous I was playing 1 you were eating 1 he was talking 1 they were running 1 .