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The Past Continuous Tense
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The Past Continuous TenseThe Past Continuous refers to an a continuing action or state, the “duurvorm”, in
Dutch.
In this small powerpoint I will explain what the past continuous is and how to make a
sentence with it.
What is it?
If you want to make clear that something is going on for a while you use the past
continuous.
E.g.
We waren aan het zingen.
We were singing.
Ik zat te schreeuwen.
I was screaming.
Singing and screaming are things that go on for a while in this case, so it is past
continuous.
How do you make it?
You’ve had the present continuous right? How do you make the present continuous?
That one is made of a form of to be + form with -ing
As in :
I am dancing.
The Past Continuous is very similar, but instead of a present form of to be you use
the past form.
I am -> I was
He/she/it is -> he/she/it was
We are -> We were
They are -> They were
So when with you get:
I was dancing.
We were dancing.
So, to sum it up:
The present continuous is used for something that continues for a while in the
present, it is made by using a present form of to be + form with -ing.
I am singing.
We are singing.
The past continuous is used for something that continues for a while in the past, it is
made by using a past form of to be + form with -ing.
I was singing.
We were singing.
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