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Past Continuous – Como Usar e Formar Frases Em Inglês

O Past Continuous também conhecido como Past Progressive é um tempo verbal muito importante e essencial para quem quer aprender inglês e se tornar fluente.

No artigo de hoje você vai aprender como e quando usar o Past Continuous e também como formar frases em inglês com este tempo verbal.

Se você quiser aprender como formar frases em inglês em todos os tempos verbais de forma simples e descomplicada, clique aqui para conhecer nosso Guia Definitivo de Como Formar Frases Em Inglês, onde você encontrará um guia completo para formar suas próprias frases em inglês e conhecer as principais estruturas do idioma.

Como e quando usar o Past Continuous

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O past continuous (passado contínuo) é um tempo verbal utilizado para indicar ações contínuas que aconteceram no passado.

Ou seja, usamos este tempo verbal para descrever ações que estavam acontecendo em algum momento no passado.

Veja alguns exemplos:

It was raining yesterday – Estava chovendo ontem.

My sister was working the whole day. – Minha irmã estava trabalhando o dia inteiro.

I was studying English last night. – Eu estava estudando inglês ontem à noite.

Como formar frases com Past Continuous

Para formarmos frases no Past Continuous nós temos a seguinte estrutura básica:

Sujeito + Verbo to be no Simple Past (was/were) + Verbo principal no gerúndio (ing).

Como você pode ver para formar frases no Past Continuous precisamos saber como conjugar o verbo to be no Simple Past.

Se você quiser conferir também as regras para acrescentar o ING aos verbos você pode dar uma olhada no nosso artigo sobre o Present Continuous onde eu entrei em mais detalhes sobre essas regras gramaticais.

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Vamos conferir a conjugação do verbo to be agora, é mais simples do que parece.

Verbo to be no passado

Confira a conjugação do verbo to be no passado:

IWas
YouWere
HeWas
SheWas
ItWas
WeWere
YouWere
TheyWere

Dica extra:

Para que você consiga memorizar com mais facilidade é só você lembrar que só usamos o Was com os pronomes I, He, She, It e nos demais pronomes usaremos sempre Were.

Frases afirmativas

Para formar frases afirmativas no Past Continuous, nós usaremos a estrutura padrão deste tempo verbal:

Sujeito + Verbo to be no Simple Past (was/were) + Verbo principal no gerúndio (ing).

Exemplo:

She was listening to music. – Ela estava ouvindo música.

Veremos mais exemplos mais a frente.

Frases negativas

Para formar as frases negativas nós temos que acrescentar o Not depois do verbo to be na frase, teremos a seguinte estrutura:

Sujeito + Verbo to be no Simple Past (was/were) + Not + Verbo principal no gerúndio (ing).

Exemplo:

I was not going to my house. – Eu não estava indo para minha casa.

Frases interrogativas

Para fazer perguntas no Past Continuous nós temos que inverter a ordem do sujeito com o verbo to be.

Verbo to be no Simple Past (was/were) + Sujeito + Verbo principal no gerúndio (ing).

Exemplo:

Was he working yesterday? – Ele estava trabalhando ontem?

Frases no Past Continuous

Vamos ver agora alguns exemplos de frases afirmativas, negativas e interrogativas no Past Continuous.

She was working yesterday. – Ela estava trabalhando ontem.

I was playing soccer last night. – Eu estava jogando futebol ontem à noite.

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They were eating a cake when I saw them. – Eles estavam comendo um bolo quando eu os vi.

It was snowing last week. – Estava nevando semana passada.

I was not sleeping. – Eu não estava dormindo.

It was not raining here. – Não estava chovendo aqui.

I was not studying for the test. – Eu não estava estudando para a prova.

You were not watching TV when I called you. – Você não estava assistindo TV quando liguei para você.

Was she working when you met her? – Ela estava trabalhando quando você a conheceu?

Were they studying English? – Eles estavam estudando inglês?

Were you playing video game? – Você estava jogando videogame?

Was it raining there? – Estava chovendo lá?

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