Ingles

PASADO PROGRESIVO

Structure - Estructura

|The structure of a simple sentence in past progressive tense| |La estructura de una sencilla oración en tiempo pasado |
|is the following:| |progresivo es la siguiente: |

|noun/pronoun + was/were + verb in progressive form. "was y were son complementos"|

|Examples: | |Ejemplos: |

|I was walking.|
|You were eating. |
|She was thinking. |
|We were planning. |
|It was snowing. |
|The Moon was lighting.|

Uses - Usos

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Present Progressive: The action was in progress when another action occurred.

|Past progressive tense is usually used to communicate that | |El tiempopasado progresivo es comúnmente usado para |
|an activity was going on when another action occurred. | |comunicar que una actividad estaba sucediendo cuando otra |
|Example:| |acción ocurrió. Ejemplo: |

|When I was walking home, I saw my old friend John. ||I saw my old friend John is the part in simple past tense, | |I saw my old friend es una parte en tiempo pasado simple, y |
|and when I was walking home is te part in past progressive ||when I was walking home es una parte dependiente en tiempo |
|tense. Another example is | |pasado progresivo. Otro ejemplo es ||Because it was raining, we could not go outside. |

|A sentence including a part in past progressive tense may | |Una oración que incluya una parte en tiempo pasado...