内容正文:
过去进行时
1. To find out the rules of past continuous tense.
2. To know how to use past continuous tense well.
3. To learn when we use past continuous tense.
What were you doing last night?
一、什么是时态?
时态(tense)是一种动词形式,用以表示在各种时间条件下的行为、动作、状态等。
也就是说,不同的时态表示动作或状态发生或存在的不同时间。
比较:
Coco usually does exercise in the morning. (经常发生,一般现在时)
Coco did exercise yesterday. (过去发生,一般过去时)
Coco will do exercise tomorrow. (还未发生,一般将来时)
Coco were doing exercise when the murder case happened last night. (过去某个时间正在发生,过去进行时)
一.过去进行时
1. 定义
过去进行时表示过去在某一时间段或某一段时间内正在发生或进行的动作或状态。
All of us were dancing in the park at nine yesterday evening.
We were playing so happily at that moment.
2. 结构
肯定句
否定句
陈述句
was/were doing
wasn’t/weren’t doing
一般疑问句
Was/Were主语doing
Wasn’t/Weren’t主语doing
特殊疑问句
疑问词was/were主语doing
疑问词wasn’t/weren’t主语doing
陈述句:
I was having lunch at that moment.
I wasn’t watching TV, I was doing homework!
一般疑问句:
Was your husband staying at home yesterday afternoon?
Were you watching TV together?
Wasn’t you playing basketball Wednesday morning?
Weren’t we having English class at 10:00 a.m. Monday morning?
特殊疑问句:
What were you doing at three this morning?
Why weren’t you working yesterday afternoon?
【即学即练】
翻译句子。
1. 昨晚八点的时候我在刷牙。
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2. 为什么你昨天早上没有在读英语?
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3. 那时候你不是在看书吗?
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参考答案:
1. I was brushing my teeth at 8:00 yesterday evening.
2. Why weren’t you reading English yesterday morning?
3. Weren’t you reading books at that time?
3. 常用时间状语
昨晚8:00
at 8:00 last night
昨天这个时候
this time yesterday
正在那个时候
at that time/at that moment
昨晚6:00到9:00
from 6:00 to 9:00 last night
昨天晚上
yesterday evening
昨天当你到这时
when you got here yesterday
刚才我看见他时
when I