Past Continuous

The following points are true about past contiuous (tick the valid ones):

• It tells that something will happen within few minutes

• It is an action that takes place in the past with certain period of time.

• It is required to used the verb "be" in past.

• It reflects a condition

• You need to add "ing" the main veb.

This is true (1 only):

• You write "I, you and they" and then "was"

• You write "you, we and they", and then "were"

• If the answer is positive, you use "will"

You use only "was" for this option (only 1):

• You and they

• we, she and we

• I, she, he and it

• I and they

The best structure of past continuous in a positive sentence is:

• ing + was/were + noun+ main verb+ complement

• complement + main verb + noun + ing

• noun + was/were + main verb + ing+ complement

A negative sentence is given by the following structure:

• ing + main verb+ noun + was/were

• noun + was/were + not + main verb + ing + complement

• Complement + noun + main verb +was/were + ing

The following is a contraction:

• She is

• They are not

• We aren't

The following is NOT a contraction:

• She's

• They're

• We aren't

• I'm

• He is

A contraction is...

• Union of two words

• It is a case according to the place function

• Separation of two words

A good example of a formal short answer is....

• Yes, they are going to the beach.

• Yes

• Nop

• Yes, I am.

A good example of a formal negative short answer is:

• No, I was not telling the true yesterday

• Yes, we are.

• Maybe