Past Continuous

вживається для вираження дії, що відбувається в певний момент чи період часу в минулому I/he/she/it you/we/they was were V+ ing He was tidying up the room at 5 o'clock in the evening. They were singing a song at 9 p.m.

Remember I was He was She was It was We were You were They were V ing play – playing sleep – sleeping write - writing get - getting

Negative (заперечення) The woman was not (wasn't) washing up at 4 o'clock. She was making dinner at that time. was not = wasnt were not = werent They were not sleeping at 8 a.m. They were having breakfast at that time.

Question (запитання) She was ironing when he came. Was she ironing when he came? Yes, she was./ No, she wasn't. The children were playing at 4 p.m. Were the children playing at 4 p.m.? Yes, they were./ No, they weren't

Where was What was підмет V ing Why were Whose Where were they dancing at 9 p.m.? - They were dancing at the disco. What were they doing at 9 a.m.? -They were running. Who was watering the flowers at 8 a.m.? - My son was спеціальні запитання Wh-questions:

Remember. Певний момент часу в минулому може бути виражений: певним часом періодом часу минулого підрядним реченням Bill was playing football at 5 p.m. yesterday I was drawing from 5 till 7 oclock yesterday He was bathing when I entered the room. P.S.

Підкреслюється процес дії в минулому за допомогою: союзів: while when as all day long the whole evening all the time While Bill was working in the garden, Sam was washing clothes. Ben was working the whole evening