La Estructura Básica del Pasado Continuo:

ALGUNAS CARACTERISTICAS DEL PASADO CONTINUO

Nota: Este tiempo verbal se forma con el pasado del verbo BE más el gerundio ING del verbo que se desea conjugar. Indica una acción en desarrollo en el pasado, es decir, usamos el Pasado Continuo para expresar que alguien ESTABA HACIENDO algo en determinado momento y que la acción había comenzado con anterioridad pero no había finalizado.

FORMULA DEL PASADO CONTINUO

subject + was / were +  ing	1	2	3
	go	went	gone

Negative

subject + was/were + not + 1 > ing

Affirmative

subject + was/were + 1 > ing

Interrogative

Was/Were + subject + 1 > ing ?

Utilizacion de cada uno de los pronombres:

I           was eating something.                

You     were talking to somebody.       

He       was listening to something.      

She      was reading something.

It          was going somewhere.               

You      were looking at something.  

We      were wearing something.          

They    were sitting somewhere.

Tabla de Comparación

Affirmative	Negative	Interrogative
I was going	I was not going	Was I going?
You were going	You were not going	Were you going?
He was going	He was not going	Was he going?
She was going	She was not going	Was she going?
It was going	It was not going	Was it going?
We were going	We were not going	Were we going?
You were going	You were not going	Were you going?
They were going	They were not going	Were they going?

10 Ejemplos de PAST CONTINOUS:

1.- This time last year I  was visiting  Rio de Janeiro.

2.- What  were  you  doing  at 10:00 last night?

3.- Daniel  was preparing  dinner.

4.- Daniel  burned  his hand while he  was preparing  dinner.

6.- It  was raining  when I  got up  this morning.

7.- While Ann  was working  in the garden, she  hurt  her back.

8.- When Monica  arrived , we  were having  dinner.

9.- Monica arrived and then we had dinner.

10.- You were going to New York.