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Past Continuous Tense

Past Continuous Tense The Past Continuous tense , also known as past progressive tense, indicates a continuing action, something that was happening, going on, at certain point in the past. The action can be interrupted by another action or can happen at the same time. This tense is generally occurs only with dynamic verb, not the static one. The Patterns The Past Continuous tense is formed with the helping verb of the past be (was, were) and the present participle (verb with an – ing ending). See the following patterns carefully! Affirmative Subject + past be (was, were) + V-ing (the present participle) Negative Subject + past be (was, were) +not + V-ing (the present participle) Interrogative past be (was, were) + Subject + V-ing (the present participle) The proper conjugation of the past be with the subject pronoun Was —————–>> I, He, She, It or the singular or the uncountable noun Were —————>> You, We, They or the plural noun Time Signals ...
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Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Past Perfect Continuous Tense The Past Perfect Continuous tense , also known as Past Perfect Progressive, is used to talk about actions that began in the past and lasted up until another action in the past. The Past Perfect Continuous is related to the Present Perfect Continuous,yet, the duration does not continue until now, it stops before another action in the past. The Past Perfect Continuous tense emphasizes on the duration or course of an action. The Patterns Affirmative Subject + had + been + V-ing (present participle) Negative Subject + had + not +been + V-ing (present participle) Interrogative Had + Subject +been + V-ing (present participle) Time Signals The time signals used with the Past Perfect Continuous Tense among others are for, since, the whole day, all day, etc. The Uses The Past Perfect Continuous tense is used to express: 1. action taking place before a certain time in the past; We use the Past Perfect Continuous to show that some...
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Present Continuous Tense

Present Continuous Tense  The continuous and progressive aspects (abbreviated CONT and PROG) are grammatical aspects that express incomplete action in progress at a specific time: they are non-habitual, imperfective aspects. It is a verb category with two principal meaning components: (limited) duration and (possible) incompletion. Most languages treat continuous and progressive aspects as alike and use the two terms interchangeably, but there are languages that distinguish them. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_continuous) The Present Continuous which is also known as present progressive is used to tell actions going on at the moment of speaking and for actions taking place only for a short period of time. It is also used to express development and actions arranged for the near future. The present progressive emphasizes on the course or the duration of an action. The Patterns Affirmative Subject+be (am,is,are)+ Verb-ing (present participle) ——>> I am doin...
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