{"id":6015,"date":"2015-07-17T06:38:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T05:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/?page_id=6015"},"modified":"2015-07-22T00:06:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T23:06:46","slug":"past-progressive-erklarungen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/past-progressive-erklarungen\/","title":{"rendered":"past progressive - explanations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/simple-past-past-progressive-gegenuberstellung-2\/\"><button>simple past - past progressive - difference<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>past progressive - the continous form of the past<\/h1>\n<p>The past progressive is the continous form of the past and is used when an action is done in the past over an undefined period of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Often times people express themselves in the <em>past progressive<\/em> if an action is spread over an undefined period of time and nothing noteworthy happens:<\/p>\n<p><strong>for example:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was playing basketball yesterday. = Meaning: while I was playing basketball nothing special happened.<\/p>\n<h2>formation:<\/h2>\n<h3>Aussagesatz<\/h3>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-4\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-4\">\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">I\/we\/you\/they<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">were playing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">he\/she\/it<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">was playing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-4 from cache -->\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The progressive form of the past uses the suffix <em>-ing<\/em>. Apart from that the same rules apply as in the present progressive.<\/p>\n<h3>negation<\/h3>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-6\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-6\">\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">I\/you\/we\/they<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">weren't              playing<br \/>\nwere not<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">he\/she\/it<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">wasn't                playing<br \/>\nwas not<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-6 from cache -->\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The negation simply adds not to the auxiliaries <em>was<\/em> and <em>were<\/em>, the short forms are accordingly <em>wasn't<\/em> and <em>weren't<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>question:<\/h3>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-9\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-9\">\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Was<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">I\/you\/we\/they<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">playing?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Were<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">he\/she\/it<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">playing?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-9 from cache -->\n<p> The question puts the auxiliary to the front of the sentence. <em>(inversion)<\/em><\/p>\n<h2> exercises past progressive <\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/past-progressive-aussagesatze\/\"><button> exercises past progressive affirmative <\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/past-progressive-frage\/\"><button> exercises past progressive question <\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/past-progressive-verneinung\/\"><button> exercises past progressive negation <\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/ubungen-past-progressive\/\"><button> exercises past progressive mixed <\/button><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>simple past &#8211; past progressive &#8211; Unterschied past progressive &#8211; die Verlaufsform der 1. Vergangenheit Das past progressive, die Verlaufsform der 1. Vergangenheit wird im Englischen dann verwendet, wenn eine Handlung oder T\u00e4tigtkeit in der Vergangenheit \u00fcber einen unbestimmten Zeitraum abgelaufen ist. Man bedient sich im Englischen gerne des past progressive, wenn man zum Ausdruck [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6015","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6379,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6015\/revisions\/6379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}