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Past Continuous

Past Continuous - minulý průběhový je tvořen

  • minulým tvarem slovesa TO BE, tedy WAS / WERE, a -ING tvarem daného slovesa:
    • I was listening to music all the afternoon.
  • otázka, zápor a krátká odpověď se tvoří, podobně jako u přítomného průběhového, přidáním NOT ke tvaru WAS / WERE

Použití minulého průběhového času:

  • it expresses an activity happening during some time in the past (all the afternon, last week, etc.):
    • We were speaking about it for two hours yeasterday.
  • we use the past simple and past continuous together to say that something happened in the middle of something else.
    • When I arrived at the restaurant, he was talking to somebody on the phone. - this means that he started talking on the phone before I arrived at the restaurant, and he was still talking when I entered the restaurant.
    • the order of the clauses is not important here. It is possible to change the clause order without changing the meaning of the sentence.
      • He was talking to somebody on the phone when I arrived at the restaurant.
 
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