PAST PROGRESSIVE

AFFIRMATIVE PAST PROGRESSIVE was reading an interesting book he was doing my English work on the PC she was cooking a delicious cake was barking all night long it we were paying attention to the teacher You were working on the English project They were taking extra English classes  

NEGATIVE I was not cutting the images printing the document he   printing the document he She was not scanning the photo. it charging the ink. we installing the webcam. you were not they contractions wasn‘t / weren‘t/ contracciones ‘m not / isn’t / aren’t /

QUESTIONS ANSWERS Yes, I was No, I was not Yes, he was No, she wasn’t Was I copying the data? he Was she saving the file? it we Were you using the tools? they Yes, I was No, I was not Yes, he was No, she wasn’t Yes, they were No, they weren’t

RULES TO FORM ING Cuando un verbo monosílabo termina en una sola consonante (excepto w, x, y) precedida por una vocal, la última consonante se duplica antes de agregar ing. ej: set – setting, stop – stopping, run – running, scan – scanning. Una consonante final precedida por vocales no se duplica. ej: keep – keeping, read – reading. Cuando un verbo de más de una sílaba termina en una sola consonante precedida por una vocal, la última consonante se duplica si la última sílaba es acentuada. (para el ejemplo se resalta la sílaba acentuada). ej: admit-admitting, forget- forgetting, prefer – preferring.

RULES TO FORM ING La consonante final no se duplica cuando la última sílaba no es acentuada. Ej: open – opening, listen – listening. Cuando la forma simple de un verbo termina en ie la e desaparece y la i se cambia por y antes de agregar ing. Ej: die – dying, tie – tying, lie – lying. En todos los demás casos, el ing se agrega a la forma simple del verbo. Ej: do – doing, see – seeing, stand – standing  Cuando la forma simple del verbo termina en una sola e, la e desaparece antes de agregar ing (excepción: be: being). Ej: write- writing, close- closing, save-saving, paste- pasting.  

PAST PROGRESSIVE He _______ ___________ his new lap top. COMPLETE THE SENTENCES IN PAST PROGRESSIVE USE THE VERBS: READ, STUDY, DO, COPY, OPEN, CALL, CLOSE, PAINT, FIX, USE He _______ ___________ his new lap top. The programmers _______ _______ the language program The technician ________ __________ the machine ______ you__________ at UPB language center? _______they _______with the tool machine? _______I _______ the correct work? They ________ ________ the files. (negative) She ________ __________ the files and images. ( negative) The students _____ _________some website to look for technical information we______ _________the police after the accident.