Past Continuous

The jaguar WAS ATTACKING, it WAS LOOKING for a prey.

Quando voglio descrivere una scena già accaduta, o cosa stava accadendo in un certo momento del PASSATO, utilizzo il PAST CONTINUOUS

STRUTTURA

affermativa: SOGG + WAS/WERE + VERBO-ING

negativa: SOGG + WASN'T/WEREN'T + VERBO-ING

interrogativa: WAS/WERE + SOGG + VERBO-ING?

What were you doing yesterday at 5.00 p.m. in the back garden?

King Kong was holding the woman, WHILE the planes were arriving to kill him

Harry Potter was playing quiddich, WHEN something strange happened...

WHILE = mentre

(unisce due azioni che si stavano svolgendo, entrambe al past continuous)

WHEN = quando

(unisce il past continuous ad un azione al Past Simple: un'azione si stava svolgendo, quando... successe qualcos'altro

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