{"id":1368,"date":"2023-07-13T15:21:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T18:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centraldoingles.com\/portal2\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:36:54","slug":"past-continuous-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centraldoingles.com\/portal\/tempos-verbais\/past-continuous-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Continuous Tense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class='item_comp_desc texto_padrao'><div style='text-align: justify;'>O <strong>Past Continuous Tense<\/strong> tamb&eacute;m conhecido com <strong>Past Progressive tense<\/strong>, &eacute; usado para descrever uma a&ccedil;&atilde;o que estava acontecendo em um determinado momento do passado. Descrevemos uma a&ccedil;&atilde;o que estava em progresso no passado.<\/div>\n<br \/>\nEX.:<br \/>\nI was studying yesterday night. (Eu estava estudando ontem &agrave; noite.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>ESTRUTURA B&Aacute;SICA:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><span style='color:#FF0000;'>SUJEITO + WAS\/WERE (verbo to be no passado) + VERBO COM ING<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\nUsamos <span style='color:#FF0000;'><strong>WAS<\/strong><\/span> quando o sujeito da frase for <strong>I, he, she<\/strong> ou <strong>it<\/strong> e <span style='color:#FF0000;'><strong>WERE<\/strong><\/span> quando o sujeito for <strong>you, we<\/strong> ou <strong>they<\/strong>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;\n<p style='padding-top: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.700000762939453px;'>Se surgir alguma d&uacute;vida quanto ao uso do verbo &ldquo;<em>to be<\/em>&rdquo; no passado, basta consultar a tabela abaixo:<\/p>\n\n<table align='center' border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.700000762939453px;' width='75%'>\n\t<tbody>\n\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>Personal pronouns<br \/>\n\t\t\t(Pronomes Pessoais)<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>&nbsp;Verbo &ldquo;to be&rdquo; no presente<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333'>\n\t\t\t<p style='padding-top: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; text-align: center;'>Verbo &ldquo;to be&rdquo; no passado<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>I<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>am<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>was<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>You<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>are<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>were<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>He<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>is<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>was<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>She<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>is<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>was<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>It<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>is<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>was<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>We<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>are<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>were<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>You<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>are<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>were<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>They<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>are<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td bordercolor='#333333' style='text-align: center;'>were<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<p style='padding-top: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.700000762939453px;'><br \/>\n<strong font-size:='' line-height:='' style='font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, ' trebuchet=''>INTERROGATIVE FORM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div style='text-align: justify;'>Para formarmos frases interrogativas, trocamos apenas a posi&ccedil;&atilde;o do verbo to be (WAS\/WERE) para o in&iacute;cio da frase.<\/div>\n<br \/>\nShe <span style='color:#FF0000;'><strong>WAS<\/strong><\/span> watching TV. (Ela estava assistindo TV.)<br \/>\n<span style='color:#FF0000;'><strong>WAS<\/strong><\/span> she watching TV? (Ela estava assistindo TV?)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThey <span style='color:#FF0000;'><strong>WERE<\/strong><\/span> playing cads. (Eles estavam jogando baralho.)<br \/>\n<strong><span style='color:#FF0000;'>WERE<\/span><\/strong> they playing cards? (Eles estavam jogando baralho?)<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>NEGATIVE FORM<\/strong><br \/>\nEm frases negativas, adicionamos a part&iacute;cula de nega&ccedil;&atilde;o <strong><span style='color:#000080;'>NOT<\/span><\/strong> ap&oacute;s o verbo to be ou usamos as formas contractas <span style='color:#0000FF;'><strong>WASN&#39;T<\/strong> <\/span><span style='color:#000000;'>ou<\/span><span style='color:#0000FF;'> <strong>WEREN&#39;T<\/strong><\/span>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nShe&nbsp;<span style='color: rgb(255, 0, 0);'><strong>WAS<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;<strong><span style='color:#000080;'>NOT<\/span><\/strong> watching TV. (Ela<strong><span style='color:#000080;'> N&Atilde;O<\/span><\/strong> estava assistindo TV.)<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;ou<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;She <span style='color:#0000FF;'><b>WASN&#39;T<\/b><\/span>&nbsp;watching TV.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThey&nbsp;<span style='color: rgb(255, 0, 0);'><strong>WERE<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;<strong><span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 128);'>NOT<\/span><\/strong>playing cads. (Eles <strong><span style='color:#000080;'>N&Atilde;O<\/span><\/strong> estavam jogando baralho.)<br \/>\n&nbsp;They&nbsp;<span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 255);'><b>WEREN&#39;T<\/b><\/span>&nbsp;paying cards.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&nbsp;\n<div style='text-align: justify;'>Usamos o Past Continuous Tense junto com o Simple Past Tense para falar de uma a&ccedil;&atilde;o que estava acontecendo em um determinado momento e foi interrompida por outra. A interrup&ccedil;&atilde;o dessa a&ccedil;&atilde;o normalmente se d&aacute; pelo uso do Simple Past Tense.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<br \/>\nThey <strong><span style='color:#FF0000;'>WERE DRIVING<\/span><\/strong> <u>when<\/u> the acident <strong><span style='color:#006400;'>HAPPENED<\/span><\/strong>. (Eles estavam dirigindo quando o acidente aconteceu.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<u>While<\/u> she <span style='color:#FF0000;'><strong>WAS DANCING<\/strong><\/span> she<strong><span style='color:#006400;'> FELL<\/span><\/strong>. (Enquanto ela estava dan&ccedil;ando, ela caiu.)<br \/>\n&nbsp;\n<div style='text-align: center;'><strong>Observe que nas duas frases acima, h&aacute; a presen&ccedil;a de <span style='color:#0000CD;'>WHEN = QUANDO<\/span> <\/strong>e<strong> <span style='color:#0000FF;'>WHILE = ENQUANTO<\/span>.<\/strong><\/div>\n<br \/>\nPodemos tamb&eacute;m usar o Past Progressive Tense para retratar duas a&ccedil;&otilde;es que estavam acontecendo simultaneamente.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nShe <span style='color:#FF0000;'><strong>WAS WATCHING<\/strong><\/span> TV while her brother <strong><span style='color:#FF0000;'>WAS LISTENNING<\/span><\/strong> TO MUSIC. (Ela estava assistindo TV enquando seu irm&atilde;o estava ouvindo m&uacute;sica.)\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Past Continuous Tense tamb&eacute;m conhecido com Past Progressive tense, &eacute; usado para descrever uma a&ccedil;&atilde;o que estava acontecendo em um determinado momento do passado. Descrevemos uma a&ccedil;&atilde;o que estava em progresso no passado. EX.: I was studying yesterday night. (Eu estava estudando ontem &agrave; noite.) ESTRUTURA B&Aacute;SICA: SUJEITO + WAS\/WERE (verbo to be no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[534,535,533,532],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tempos-verbais","tag-passado-continuo","tag-passado-continuos","tag-past-continuos","tag-past-continuous-tense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraldoingles.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraldoingles.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraldoingles.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraldoingles.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraldoingles.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centraldoingles.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraldoingles.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraldoingles.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraldoingles.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraldoingles.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}