English Grammar – Introduction to Past Progressive

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Past Progressive is so essential

kotoz

Simple and easy to understand…
Are there any exceptions here?

Jai

Actually, yes. I think it would have been interesting to add that some stative verbs are not normally used in the continuous (for example, have, like, need, want, know…). If I remember correctly, the progressive forms occur only with dynamic verbs. Of course, some verbs can be both stative and dynamic.
There is an ESL lesson about stative verbs : https://www.engvid.com/english-grammar-stative-verbs/

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Hi,
can I ask you when I should use I was watting for you.
and when I should use I have been watting for you.

The situation is if I am having a date with someone and I whant to tell him …….

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CRAZY

Hello. I’m Hang. I’m from Vietnam. I’d like you to help me this
“It…….(rain) all day yesterday” what exact tense can we use here”
I hope to hear from you soon. Thanks a lot.

Hang

Hi Hang,

In this case, you can use a variety of tenses. Here they are:

“It rained all day yesterday.”
“It was raining all day yesterday.”
“It had rained all day yesterday.”
“It had been raining all day yesterday.”

The first one is the one you were probably looking for.

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Yea is that is right but all the time of the novel I mean …… Narrative…..

preemy

sir Alex, i’m not agree with this phrase: While he was swimming, i was reading.
if i understood something in English i will say: While he was swimming, I read(past tense).
While+past continuous, past tense. Wright or wrong?????

amine0082

Hi amine,

Both ways are correct.

Alex

Thank you very much for the lesson

Enjoy

I’d be very grateful to you, if you could take up a lesson about “Past Perfect Continues”.Also could you explain the differences between “past Perfect Continues and Past Continues”

your response will be highly appreciated

Jonny

what is the difference between
“Tracy was reading a book yesterday” or
“Tracy had been reading a book ”

thank you in advance

Jonny

Past perfect and past perfect progressive sentences, like “Tracy had read a book yesterday,” or “Tracy had been reading a book yesterday,” are generally used to talk about an event in the PAST past. Essentially, you can use them to talk about an event that happened BEFORE another event in the past. Sometimes though, there is very little difference in meaning.

Alex

cxellent,today is the first time I can understad this difference.
Thank you.

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masuda

what is the difference between
“Tracy was reading a book yesterday” or
“Tracy had been reading a book ”

thank you in advance

lostdel

tracy was reading a book yestrday is past progressive.
and tracy had been reading a book is past prefect progressive.

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Alex

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wmshah1

salam sir
sir can we says that past proggressive talk about an finishd action

omidkhan

soryyyy unfinishd action

omidkhan

Correct. It was in progress at some moment in the past. Of course, it is finished NOW, but it was in progress and was unfinished in the past.

Alex

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I still dont understand the different between washed the dishes and was washing the dishes as in both the dishes were done and thats it.
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mohamed eltahir

i don’t understand, what’s the difference with simple past??? somebody help me…. please… because in the thirth example Alex use a phrase that it was finished in the past: they were singing very loudly… it was in the past and it finished, not is happening !!! i dont understand.. thank you

santiagosea

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merei

Hi Alex,

I have a doubt in following example and please let me out on this doubts.

You are free now or Are you free now

Which one is correct and usually are will come before you/we as per rule of English.

I agree that “are you free now?” might be correct due to we are expressing as question term. At the same time if i say
What are you doing on my system? or else if i say
What you are doing on my system? Which term is to be correct?

I keen to here answer for above mentioned doubts.

Warm Regards,
Mohammed Shahith (India)

khrmsr

Mohammed, “You are free now” is an affirmation and “Are you free now” is a question. The more correct write is Are you free now? About the second question, I think that the first is correct. I am not a teacher but I always want help the others members of this site when I can.

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claudinahso

please help me what is a different between past progressive and past perfect?

lilit87

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lblanks

how to use would in past tense..

Ramesh patil

what is the difference between have and have been

Ramesh patil

Hi Alex,
Could you tell me what is the difference past tense and past perfect tense?

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hello ,i would like to know the meaning of future parfect progrssive and past perfect progrssive.

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Khalid

Thanks Alex but I have a question here please
May I say …….I was walking while my friend Chris ran
Thanks again

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chanchal17

thank you very much for this lesson, but can you tell us when we should use the past simple and when we should use the past continuous??

Nardi

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bora

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qaishzh

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rajnikanth

is the use of the past continous for more than 1 action? because i know it’s use:
1- to express apast action in progress when another action took place.
2-to express 2 actions that were happening at the same time.
3-to express an activity in progress during atime in the past.
So, ” i was watching t.v” how is this example expesses the past continous however there is 1 action which is watcing? plz answer me

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azdin87

Thank you for the lesson

In the point n° 3 of the text there is: my friendS were dancing for 4 hours.
Ok, we have to use were because we are talking about friendS (then we were).
But why did you use the past progressive if the friends finished the action (dance) after 4 hours? (or maybe the action start 4 hours before and still going on…) I’m confused.
Could you explain me this point please?

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The lesson was easy and clear.

I have a question and I hope you could clarify this matter to me, because it’s really confusing me.
which one of the following statements is more likely to be correct and way?
1/ It was raining, so I didn’t go out.
or
2/It has been raining, so I didn’t go out.

Thanks in advance.

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what is the difference between the sentence
1. i was walked yesterday
2.i was walking yesterday
if these two answers in my question ,how i choose the answer.how i identiy the situation it is past progressive or past tense.please help me

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hello,I think that the past progressive tense describes an activity that was progressive in a period of time in the past and is finished.so I am confused with the answer of question number 5 .