内容正文:
Unit 3 Internship
过去式进行时
(The Past Continuous Tense)
Part A
单元语法教学
一、 过去进行时的基本用法:
1. 表示在过去某一时刻或某一段时间内正在发生或进行的动作或状态。常和表示过去的时间状语连用。
如:
I was doing my homework at this time yesterday.
They were expecting you yesterday.
2. 表示按计划、安排过去将要发生的事。用于come, go, leave, start, arrive等表示位置转移的动词时,也可以用过去进行时表示过去将要发生的动作。
如:
He told me(that)he was going soon.
他告诉我他很快就要走了。
3. 过去进行时可与soon, the next moment, in minutes, minutes later等时间状语连用,表示一个新的动作刚刚开始。
如:
Soon the whole town was talking about it.
4. 过去进行时可用来申述原因或用作借口,这种用法常用在口语中。
如:
--- Have you finished your homework, Mary?
--- No, I was helping my mother in the kitchen all day yesterday.
5. 过去进行时可用来为一个后一系列动作的发生提供背景。
如:
I hurt my leg when I was riding a bike. 我在骑车时把腿摔坏了。
6. 过去进行时可表示过去未曾实现的愿望或打算,这时be动词was / were要重读。
如:
I was writing him a letter this morning and forgot all about it.
I was seeing her tomorrow.
He was watching the play yesterday, but he was too busy.
7. 过去进行时也可表示满意、称赞、惊讶、厌恶等感情色彩,通常与always, forever, continually等副词连用。
如:
They were always quarreling. 他们老是吵架。
The boy was continually asking questions. 这个男孩子老是问东问西的。
二、 过去进行时的基本构成:
was / were + v-ing (动词的现在分词) + 其他
1. 肯定句: 主语 + was / were + v-ing (动词的现在分词) + 其他。
I was working.
He / She / It was working.
They were working.
2. 否定句: 主语 + was / were + not + v-ing (动词的现在分词) + 其他。
I was not working.
He / she / It was not (wasn’t) working.
They were not (weren’t) working.
3. 一般疑问句: Was / Were + 主语 + v-ing (动词的现在分词) + 其他?
Were you working?
Was he / she / it working?
Were they working?
肯定回答: Yes, 主语 + was / were.
Yes, I was.
Yes, he / she / it was.
Yes, they were.
否定回答: No, 主语 + was / were + not.
No, I was not (wasn’t).
No, he / she / it was not (wasn’t).
No, they were not (weren’t).
三、 动词现在分词变化规则:
1. 在动词原形后直接加-ing.
look-looking cook-cooking read-reading play-playi