Angleščina ima za opisovanje preteklosti na voljo več časov.

Past Continuous je čas, ki se uporablja za:

  1. dejanja, ki so se dogajala ob določenem času v preteklosti (nedovršna dejanja)
    He was watching TV all evening.
  2. dejanja, ki so se dogajala sočasno (in niso vplivala ena na drugo)
    While her husband was watching football, she was ironing.
  3. ponavljajoča se dejanja, ki so govorcu nadležna (s prislovi »always, constantly« ipd.)
    She was constantly interrupting me while I was speaking.

Uporablja se s tipičnima prislovoma while (medtem ko) in when. Čeprav je slednji bolj tipičen v Past Simple času, pa se lahko pojavi tudi v Past Continuousu. Ostali časovni izrazi vključujejo fraze kot so: all afternoon, fraze povezane z uro, letnicami…

Pomožna glagola sta WAS (I, he, she, it) and WERE (we, you, they), ki se vežeta na polnopomenski glagol s končnico –ING.

It was snowing yesterday.
We were playing cards at 9pm.

TRDILNI STAVKI

OSEBEK + POMOŽNI GLAGOL + GLAGOL-ING (+ OSTALO).

OSEBEK
POMOŽNI GLAGOL
GLAGOL
OSTALO
I, He, She, It
You, We, They		 was
were		 working all day.

NIKALNI STAVKI

OSEBEK + POMOŽNI GLAGOL + NOT + GLAGOL-ING (+ OSTALO).

OSEBEK
ZANIKANI POM. GLAGOL
GLAGOL
OSTALO
I, He, She, It
You, We, They		 wasn’t (was not)
weren’t (were not)		 working all day.

VPRAŠALNI STAVKI

VPRAŠALNI 1: POMOŽNI GLAGOL + OSEBEK + GLAGOL-ING (+ OSTALO)?
VPRAŠALNI 2: VPRAŠALNICA + POMOŽNI GLAGOL + OSEBEK + GLAGOL-ING (+ OSTALO)?

(VPRAŠALNICA)
POMOŽNI GLAGOL
OSEBEK
GLAGOL
OSTALO
(Where) was
were		 I, he, she, it
you, we, they		 working all day?

ODGOVOR 1: Were you working yesterday? Yes, I was. No, I wasn’t.
ODGOVOR 2: Why were you working yesterday? Because I like working.

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