Basic English Grammar Course | Past Continuous | Tense Learn and Practice

Hi, everybody.

大家好。

I'm Esther.

我是埃丝特。

In this video.

在这个视频中，

I will introduce the past continuous tense.

我将介绍过去进行时。

This tense can be used to describe an action that was ongoing in the past.

这个时态可以用来描述

过去正在进行的动作。

It can also be used to describe two actions happening at the same time in the past.

它也可以用来描述

过去同时发生的两个动作。

有很多东西需要学习，所以让我们开始吧。

There's a lot to learn so let's get started.

Let's take a look at the first usage of the past continuous tense.

我们来看看

过去进行时的第一种用法。

This tense can be used to describe an action that was ongoing in the past.

这个时态可以用来描述

过去正在进行的动作。

Let's take a look at these examples.

让我们看一下这些例子。

‘I was walking in the park in the evening.’

“晚上我在公园散步。”

So first we start with the subject, ‘I’.

首先我们从主语“我”开始。

对于我、他、她和它，我们后面跟“was”。

For I, he, she, and it, we follow with ‘was’.

‘I was’

'I was' 然后我们在动词末尾添加一个 'ING'。

And then we add an ‘ING’ to the end of the verb.

‘I was walking’

“我在走路”

Now take a look at the whole sentence.

现在看一下整个句子。

‘I was walking in the park in the evening.’

“晚上我在公园散步。”

You can see that this was an ongoing action and it happened in the past.

您可以看到这是一个正在进行的操作

，并且它发生在过去。

Let's look at the next example.

让我们看下一个例子。

‘She was living here last year.’

“她去年就住在这里。”

Here, the subject is ‘she’.

这里的主语是“她”。

So again we use ‘was’ and then ‘verb-ing’.

所以我们再次使用“was”，然后使用“verb-ing”。

Here we have another expression that shows that this action was happening in the past.

这里我们有另一个表达，表明

这个动作是在过去发生的。

‘The dog,’ or ‘it’, ‘was eating dinner five minutes ago.’

“那只狗”或“它”“五分钟前正在吃晚饭。”

The subject here is ‘the dog’ which can be replaced by the pronoun ‘it’.

这里的主语是“狗”

，可以用代词“it”代替。

所以我们后面跟“was”。

And so we follow with ‘was’.

最后，“安迪和吉姆”，

And finally, ‘Andy and Jim,’ we can replace this with ‘they’.

我们可以用“他们”代替。

For ‘you’, ‘we’ and ‘they’, we use ‘were’.

对于“你”、“我们”和“他们”，我们使用“were”。

‘They were’, or ‘Andy and Jim were working at 9:00 p.m.’

“他们是”，或者“安迪和吉姆在晚上 9:00 工作”

Let's move on.

让我们继续。

The past continuous tense is also used to describe an ongoing

过去进行时也用于

描述过去正在进行的动作

action in the past that was interrupted by another action.

被另一个动作打断。

This interrupting action is used in the past simple tense with the word ‘when’.

这种打断动作用

在过去简单时态中，与“当”一词一起使用。

让我们看一下这个例子。

Let's take a look at this example.

‘I was playing cards when you called.’

“你打电话的时候我正在打牌。”

Again we start with the subject ‘was’ or ‘were’,

我们再次从主语“was”或“were”开始，

and then ‘verb-ing’,

然后是“动词ing”，

so this is the action that was ongoing in the past,

所以这是过去正在进行的动作，

‘I was playing cards’

“我正在打牌”

这句话中的打断动作是

The interrupting action in this sentence is ‘you called’.

“你叫了” '。

You'll notice I use the word ‘when’ to show the interrupting action’

你会注意到我用“何时”这个词

来表示打断动作，

And I used it in the past simple tense, ‘called’.

并且我用它来表示过去的简单时态“被叫”。

Let's take a look at the next sentence.

我们再看下一句话。

‘The cat' or 'it' was eating when Eric came home.’

当埃里克回家时，“猫”或“它”正在吃东西。

Again the action in progress is ‘the cat was eating’.

再次进行中的动作是“猫正在吃东西”。

And ‘Eric came home’, you'll notice the past simple tense.

而“埃里克回家了”，

你会注意到过去简单时态。

This is the interrupting action used with the word ‘when’.

这是与“当”一词一起使用的打断动作。

‘We were sleeping when Anne arrived.’

“安妮到达时我们正在睡觉。”

我们再次看到过去正在进行的行动。

Again we have the ongoing action in the past.

这里的主语是“我们”。

The subject here is ‘we’.

And so we used ‘were’ and then ‘verb-ing’.

所以我们使用“were”，然后使用“verb-ing”。

‘When Anne arrived’ is the interrupting action.

“当安妮到达时”是打断动作。

And finally, ‘Alicia and I’, or ‘We' were walking when we saw Mark.’

最后，“艾丽西亚和我”，或者

“我们”在散步时看到了马克。

‘When we saw Mark’ is the interrupting action that interrupted the ongoing ‘Alicia

“当我们看到马克时”

是一个打断动作

，打断了正在进行的“艾丽西亚和我正在散步”。

and I were walking’.

同样重要的是要注意

It's also important to note that we can also switch the order of the sentence around and

，我们也可以交换句子的顺序

say,

，说“当你打电话时，我正在打牌”

‘When you called, I was playing cards,’

or ‘When Eric came home, the cat was eating.’

或“当埃里克回家时，猫正在吃东西”。

让我们继续。

Let's move on.

过去进行时的另一个用法

Another usage for the past continuous tense is to talk about two actions that were

是谈论

过去同时发生的两个动作。 我们

happening at the same time in the past.

We use the past continuous tense for both actions with the word ‘while’.

对带有“while”一词的两个动作都

使用过去进行 时。

Let's take a look at some examples.

让我们看一些例子。

The first sentence says, ‘While I was playing soccer, she was watching

第一句话是：

“当我踢足球时，她在看着我。”

me.’

您会注意到这两个动作

You'll notice that both actions are in the past continuous tense.

都是过去进行时。

‘I was playing soccer’ and ‘She was watching me’.

“我正在踢足球”和“她在看着我”。

开头的“while”一词

The word ‘while’ at the beginning shows that these actions were happening at the sametime.

表明这些动作是同时发生的。

‘While you were reading, I was preparing dinner.’

“你读书的时候，

我正在准备晚餐。”

Again both actions are expressed in the past continuous tense.

同样，

这两个动作都用过去进行时来表达。

The word ‘while’ shows that they were happening at the same time.

“同时”这个词

表明它们是同时发生的。

‘While Her husband’ or ‘he’, ‘was driving

“当她的丈夫”

或“他”开车时，她正在拍照。

she was taking pictures.’

Both actions are in the past continuous tense.

这两个动作都是过去进行时。

最后，“我们吃饭的时候，音乐响起了。”

And finally,

‘While we were eating, the music was playing.’

Both actions were happening at the same time.

这两个动作是同时发生的。

Now, you'll notice that in my examples the word ‘while’ comes at the beginning,

现在，您会注意到，在我的示例中，

“while”一词出现在开头，

however, it's important to note that you can move the word ‘while’ around in several

但是，请务必注意

，您可以通过多种方式移动“while”一词。

ways.

For example, instead of saying this,

例如，

不要这样说：

‘While I was playing soccer, she was watching me.’

“当我踢足球时，

她在看着我。”

I can move ‘while’ to the middle of the sentence.

我可以将“while”移到句子的中间。

‘I was playing soccer while she was watching me.’

“我正在踢足球，

而她在看着我。”

I can put the ‘while’ between the two actions.

我可以在两个动作之间添加“while”。

Or I can also change the sentence around and say,

或者我也可以改变句子，说：

‘While she was watching me, I was playing soccer.’

“当她看着我时，

我正在踢足球。” 因此

，如果您将“while”放在开头，那么

So it doesn't matter which action comes first with the ‘while’ if you put it in the

哪个操作先出现并不重要 。

beginning.

Let's move on.

让我们继续。

Now let's talk about the negative form of the past continuous tense.

现在我们来谈谈 过去进行时的

否定形式 。

Here are some examples.

这里有些例子。

‘She was not reading last night.’

“她昨晚没有读书。”

主语是“她”，所以我们使用“是”。

The subject is ‘she’ and so we use ‘was’.

However, before the ‘verb-ing’, we add ‘not’.

然而，在“动词ing”之前，我们添加“not”。

‘She was not reading last night.’

“她昨晚没有读书。”

I can use a contraction and say,

我可以用缩写形式说：

‘She wasn't reading last night.’

“她昨晚没有读书。”

‘We were not listening to music this morning.’

“今天早上我们没有听音乐。”

In this case, the subject is ‘we’ and so we use ‘were’.

在这种情况下，主语是“we”，因此我们使用“were”。

Again ‘not’ comes before the ‘verb-ing’.

同样，“not”出现在“verb-ing”之前。

‘We were not listening to music this morning.’

“今天早上我们没有听音乐。”

Again I can use a contraction and say,

我可以再次使用缩写形式说：

‘We weren't listening to music this morning.’

“我们今天早上没有听音乐。”

And the next one says, ‘He wasn't watching TV when his dad came

下一个说：

“他爸爸回家时他没有看电视。”

home.’

In this example, the contraction is already there for you,

在这个例子中，

缩写已经存在，

‘He wasn't watching TV’.

“他没有看电视”。

你会注意到“何时”这个词。

You'll notice the word ‘when’.

Remember ‘when’ + ‘a past simple tense verb’ shows an interrupting action,

请记住“当”+“过去简单时态动词”

表示打断动作，

so, ‘When his dad came home he wasn't watching TV.’

因此，“当他爸爸回家时，

他没有看电视。”

He was doing something else.

他正在做别的事。

And finally,

最后，

‘They weren't talking while the game was playing.’

“比赛进行时他们没有说话。”

The word ‘while’ is in this sentence.

这句话中有“同时”这个词。

Remember that shows 2 past ongoing actions happening at the same time,

请记住，这显示了 同时发生的

2 个过去正在进行的动作

so ‘While the game was playing they weren't talking’.

， 因此“当游戏进行时，

他们没有说话”。

They were doing something else.

他们正在做别的事情。

Let's move on now.

现在，我们 来

谈谈如何构成

Let's talk about how to form ‘be’ verb questions for the past continuous tense.

过去进行时的“be”动词疑问句。

Take a look at the first statement.

看一下第一个声明。

It says,

它说：“今天早上下雨了。”

‘It was raining this morning.’

为了把它变成一个问题，

In order to turn this into a question, it's quite easy,

很简单，

我们所要做的就是改变

all we have to do is change the order of the first two words.

前两个单词的 顺序 。我现在

Instead of ‘It was’, I now say ‘Was it’ to make it a question.

不再说“曾经是”，而是

说“曾经是”，以使其成为一个疑问句。

您会注意到其余的单词

You'll notice that the rest of the words stay in the same place.

保留在同一个位置。

‘Was it raining this morning?’

“今天早上下雨了吗？”

You can answer by saying, ‘Yes, it was.’ or ‘No, it wasn't.’

你可以这样回答：

“是的，确实如此。”

或“不，不是。”

The next statement says,

下一份声明说：

‘They were living there when the fire happened.’

“火灾发生时他们就住在那里。”

To turn this into a big question, again we just switched the order of the first two words.

为了把这个问题变成一个大问题，

我们再次交换了前两个单词的顺序。

Instead of ‘They were’, we say ‘Were they’.

我们不说“他们是”，而是说“他们是”。

And again, the rest of the words can stay in the same place.

同样，

其余的单词可以保留

在同一个地方。

‘Were they living there when the fire happened?’

“火灾发生时他们住在那里吗？”

And you can answer by saying,

你可以回答说：

‘Yes, they were’ or ‘No, they weren't.’

“是的，他们是”

或“不，他们不是”。

Let's continue on.

我们继续吧。

Now I'll go into how to make WH questions for the past continuous tense.

现在我将介绍如何

针对过去进行时提出 WH 问题。

You'll notice that the examples here all begin with some WH words.

您会注意到这里的示例

都以一些 WH 单词开头。

For example, ‘what’, ‘where’, ‘why’, and ‘who’.

例如，“什么”、“哪里”、“为什么”和“谁”。

Let's take a look at the first question.

我们先来看第一个问题。

‘What were they doing last night?”

“他们昨晚在做什么？”

The subject of this sentence is ‘they’.

这句话的主语是“他们”。

So what you do is after the WH word you put the proper ‘be’ verb.

所以你要做的就是在 WH 单词后面

加上正确的“be”动词。

In this case, ‘were’.

在这种情况下，“是”。

‘What were they doing last night?’

“他们昨晚在做什么？”

您会注意到主语后面是“动词-ing”。

You'll notice that after the subject comes the ‘verb-ing’.

‘What were they doing last night?’

“他们昨晚在做什么？”

I can answer by saying, ‘They were playing games’ or

我可以回答说，

“他们在玩游戏”

‘They were reading a book’.

或“他们在读书”。

The next question says,

下一个问题是：

‘Where was he working last week?’

“他上周在哪里工作？”

In this case the subject is ‘he’ and so the be verb to use is ‘was’.

在这种情况下，主语是“he”

，因此使用的 be 动词是“was”。

‘Where was he working last week?’

“他上周在哪里工作？”

I can say, ‘He was working in Canada.’

我可以说，

“他在加拿大工作。”

‘Why was she crying when she finished the book?’

“当她读完这本书时，为什么她哭了？”

In this case, the subject is ‘she’ and so I put ‘was’ after ‘why’.

在这种情况下，

主语是“她”，所以我把“是”放在“为什么”之后。

‘Why was she crying when she finished the book?’

“当她读完这本书时，为什么她哭了？”

I can say, ‘She was crying because the ending was sad.’

我可以说，

“她哭是因为结局很悲伤。”

And finally,

最后，

‘Who were the children staying with while their mom was working?’

“ 妈妈工作时，

孩子们和谁住在一起 ？”

In this case, ‘the children’ is a ‘they’

在这种情况下，

“孩子们”是“他们”，

so we follow 'who' with ‘were’.

所以我们在“谁”后面跟“是”。

‘Who were they’ or

“他们是谁”

‘Who were the children staying with while their mom was working?’

或“孩子们 在妈妈工作时

和谁住在一起 ？”

为了回答，我可以说

To answer, I can say, ‘The children’ or

“孩子们”或“他们和爸爸住在一起。”

‘They were staying with their dad.’

Let's move on.

让我们继续。

In this section, let's do a checkup for the past continuous tense.

在本节中，

我们来检查一下过去进行时。

看看第一句话。

Take a look at the first sentence.

‘Last night they were blank at school.’

“昨晚他们在学校一片空白。” 我希望你尝试

I want you to try to fill in the blank with the negative for the verb ‘stay’.

用动词“stay”的否定形式

来填空 。

‘not stay’

“不留下”

What do you think it is?

你认为是什么？

Remember, for the negative of the past continuous,

请记住，对于过去进行时的否定形式，

all you have to do is put ‘not’ and then ‘verb-ing’ after the 'be' verb.

您所要做的就是

在“be”动词后面加上“not”，然后加上“verb-ing”。

‘They were not staying at school last.’

“他们没有留在学校

‘Last night, they were not staying at school.’

。”昨晚，他们没有留在学校。

The next sentence says,

下一句话是：

‘Two days ago you blank soccer.’

“两天前你还没有踢足球。”

再次尝试动词“play”的否定形式。

Again try the negative for the verb ‘play’.

‘Two days ago blank not play soccer.’

“两天前空白没有踢足球。”

In this case, the first thing that's missing is the ‘be’ verb.

在这种情况下，

首先缺少的是“be”动词。

If the subject is ‘you’, can you think of which be verb needs to be put in there?

如果主语是“you”，

你能想到那里需要放哪个be动词吗？

The correct answer is ‘were’.

正确答案是“是”。

然后，我们说“不”。

And then, we say ‘not’.

What happens after that?

之后会发生什么？

Remember, ‘verb-ing’.

记住，“动词ing”。

So ‘you were not playing’

所以“你没有踢球”

‘two days ago, you were not playing soccer’

“两天前，

你没有踢足球”

You can also use a contraction and say,

你也可以使用缩写形式说

“你没有踢足球”。

‘You weren't playing soccer.’

Now try to find the mistake in the next sentence.

现在尝试找出下一句话中的错误。

‘Yesterday, she were reading at home.’

“昨天，她正在家里读书。”

嗯，

hmmm

The subject of this sentence is ‘she’ so the ‘be’ verb to use is not ‘were’.

这句话的主语是“她”，

所以使用的“be”动词不是“were”。是‘曾经’。

It's 'was'.

‘Yesterday, she was reading at home.’

“昨天，她正在家里读书。”

在下一句话中，它说：

In the next sentence it says, ‘Tomorrow, they were seeing their friends.’

“明天，他们要见他们的朋友。”

hmmm

嗯

‘They’ and ‘were’

“他们”和“是”这是正确的。

That's correct.

And we have the ‘verb-ing’

我们有“动词-ing”

So what's the mistake?

那么错误是什么？

请记住过去进行时是针对过去的。

Remember the past continuous is for the past.

‘Tomorrow’ is not the past.

“明天”不是过去。

So instead, we need to put a word that shows the past.

因此，

我们需要放一个表示过去的词。

For example, I can say, ‘yesterday’.

例如，

我可以说“昨天”。

‘Yesterday, they were seeing their friends.’

“昨天，他们去见朋友了。”

让我们继续。

Let's move on.

Now, let's start a checkup of the ‘when’ usage

现在，让我们开始检查

of the past continuous tense.

过去进行时的“when”用法。

Take a look at the first example.

看一下第一个例子。

It says, ‘Andrea and John’ blank when they bank hurt.’

上面写着，

“安德里亚和约翰在受伤时一片空白。”

请记住

Remember ‘when’ shows an interrupting action.

“何时”表示中断动作。

It needs to be used with the past simple tense.

它需要与过去简单时态一起使用。

So let's first look at the second blank.

那么我们首先看第二个空白。

‘When they blank hurt’

“当他们空白伤害时”

What's the past tense of the verb ‘get’?

动词“get”的过去式是什么？

The answer is ‘got’.

答案是“得到”。

现在让我们看一下

Now let's take a look at the action that was in progress in the past.

过去正在进行的操作。

‘Andrea and John’ or ‘they’

“Andrea 和 John”

或“they”

Well what comes after ‘they’?

那么“they”后面接什么？

‘were’.

'是'。

‘Andrea and John were’

'Andrea 和 John were'

然后记住我们需要在动词后添加 -ing。

Then remember we need to add -ing to the verb.

‘They were skiing’ or ‘Andrea and John were skiing when they got hurt’.

“他们正在滑雪”

或“安德里亚和约翰受伤时正在滑雪”。

The next example says, ‘It blank not raining when the game blank’.

下一个例子说，

“当游戏空白时，它空白而不下雨”。

And I want you to use the verb ‘start’ for the second blank.

我希望你 在第二个空白处

使用动词“开始”

。 看看

Take a look ‘when the game blank’ what's the past tense of ‘start’?

“当游戏空白时”

“开始”的过去式是什么？

‘started’

'started'

Now let's look at the first part of the sentence.

现在让我们看看这句话的第一部分。

The subject is ‘it’.

主语是“它”。

So what ‘be’ verb do we use for 'it'?

那么我们用什么动词“be”来代替“it”呢？

‘was’

“是”

‘It was not raining when the game started.’

“比赛开始时没有下雨。”

Now find the mistake in the next sentence.

现在找出下一句中的错误。

‘I wasn't study at the library yesterday’.

“我昨天没有在图书馆学习”。

The subject here is ‘I’ and so the ‘be’ verb ‘was’ is correct.

这里的主语是“我”，所以“be”动词“was”是正确的。

Here there's a contraction, ‘I wasn't’ for ‘I was not’.

这里有一个缩写，“我不是”，

意思是“我不是”。

Now the problem is with the verb.

现在问题出在动词上。

Remember we need to put ‘–ing’ at the end of the verb.

请记住，我们需要 在动词末尾

添加“-ing”

‘I wasn't studying at the library yesterday.’

。 “我昨天没有在图书馆学习。”

And finally, ‘We did meet our friends last weekend.’

最后，

“我们上周末确实见到了我们的朋友。”

That sounds right, but remember we're doing the past continuous tense.

听起来不错，

但请记住我们正在使用过去进行时。

Take a look again.

再看一下。

The subject is ‘we’.

主语是“我们”。

We need a ‘be’ verb.

我们需要一个“be”动词。

‘是’

‘were’

Then what happens?

然后会发生什么？

Remember, we need to add an ‘-ing’ to the end of the verb,

请记住，我们需要 在动词末尾

添加“-ing” ，

so we take out ‘did’ and say, ‘We were meeting our friends last weekend.’

因此我们去掉“did”并说

“我们上周末与朋友见面了。”

Let's move on.

让我们继续。

Now, for this checkup, we'll look at the ‘while’ usage of the past continuous tense.

现在，为了这次检查，

我们将看看

过去进行时的“while”用法。

看一下第一个例子。

Take a look at the first example.

‘While I blank someone blank my bike.’

“当我清空时，有人清空了我的自行车。”

When we use ‘while’ in the past continuous tense,

当我们在过去进行时中使用“while”时，

we're showing that two actions happened at the same time in the past

我们表明两个动作

在过去同时发生

or they were happening at the same time in the past.

，或者它们在过去同时发生。

So we need to use the past continuous for both actions.

所以我们需要对这两个动作都使用过去进行时。

‘While I blank’

“当我空白时”我希望你 在第一个空白处

I want you to use ‘shop’ in the first blank.

使用“商店”

Remember, the subject here is ‘I’ so I need to use the ‘be’ verb ‘was’.

。 请记住，这里的主语是“我”，

所以我需要使用“be”动词“was”。

然后是“动词ing”。

Then ‘verb-ing’.

‘While I was shopping’

“当我购物时”

Now ‘someone’ can be a ‘he’ or ‘she’.

现在“某人”可以是“他”或“她”。

Therefore, again we need to use ‘was’

因此，我们再次需要使用“was”

and then the ‘verb-ing’ of ‘steal’.

，然后使用“steal”的“动词ing”。

‘While I was shopping, someone was stealing my bike.’

“当我购物时，

有人偷了我的自行车。”

The next sentence says,

下一句话说，

‘While he blank’

“当他空白时”

I want you to use the verb ‘cook’.

我希望你使用动词“做饭”。

The subject is ‘he’ and so I need to use ‘was cooking’.

主语是“他”，所以我需要使用“正在做饭”。

‘While he was cooking, his girlfriend was cleaning.’

“当他做饭时，他的女朋友正在打扫卫生。”

Did you get that?

你明白了吗？

Let's move on.

让我们继续。

尝试找出下一句中的错误。

Try to find the mistake in the next sentence.

‘Jane was looking for us while we get off the plane.’

“我们下飞机时，简正在找我们。”

The first part of the sentence is correct.

这句话的第一部分是正确的。

‘Jane was looking’

“简在看”

Now the second part of the sentence.

现在是句子的第二部分。

Notice it's not in the past continuous tense.

请注意，它不是过去进行时。

‘While we get off the plane’

“当我们下飞机时”

So what we need to do is say, ‘were getting’.

所以我们需要做的是说“我们正在得到”。

‘Jane was looking for us while we were getting off the plane.’

“我们下飞机时，简正在找我们。”

The next sentence says, 'I was watching TV while my wife sleep’

下一个句子是

“我在看电视，而我的妻子正在睡觉”。

Again this part of the sentence did not use the past continuous tense.

这部分句子再次

没有使用过去进行时。

我的妻子是一个“她”，所以我需要说“正在睡觉”。

My wife is a ‘she’ and so I need to say ‘was sleeping’.

‘I was watching TV while my wife was sleeping.’

“我妻子睡觉时我正在看电视。”

Great job, everyone.

干得好，大家。让我们继续。

Let's move on.

Good job, everybody in learning the past continuous tense.

大家在学习过去进行时方面做得很好。

This tense can be a little difficult and a little tricky.

这种时态可能有点困难，也有点棘手。

Especially when it comes to the ‘when’ and ‘while’ usage.

尤其是当涉及到“何时”和“同时”的用法时。

It'll take some practice to really master it, but I know you can do it.

需要一些练习才能真正掌握它，

但我知道你可以做到。

Keep studying English and I'll see you in the next video.

继续学习英语，我们将在下一个视频中见到你。