Стр.71 Unit 5 Зона катастрофы! ГДЗ Комарова Ларионова 7 класс

• Was it snowing?
• Where was she travelling?
• What were you doing?
• Why was he driving fast?
• Who were you visiting?

We use the past continuous to describe an action in progress in the past.

We form the past continuous with subject + was / were + verb + -ing.

Affirmative:

I / He / She / It was searching for a missing woman.
We / You / They were travelling by car.

Negative:

I / He / She / It wasn’t travelling by car.
We / You / They weren’t travelling by car.

Questions and short answers:

Was I / he / she / it travelling?
Were we / you / they skiing?

Short answers:

Yes, I / he / she / it was.
No, I / he / she / it wasn’t.
Yes, we / you / they were.
No, we / you / they weren’t.

In questions, the order is was / were + subject + verb + -ing.

In short answers, we don’t repeat the verb + -ing.

Question words:

Where was she travelling?
What were you doing?
Why was he driving fast?
Who were you visiting?

Past simple and past continuous:

We use the past simple for short actions. We use the past continuous for longer actions. The past simple describes an event that interrupts a longer action in the past continuous.

We use when or while with the past continuous to mean that something took place during the time another action was happening.

We usually put when before the past simple clause and while before the past continuous clause.

He was playing golf when the lightning struck him.
The lightning struck him while he was playing golf.