ETB Grammar

We looked this week at the Past Continuous We form this tense with was were           + verb-ing we use it to describe an activity in progress at a point in the past. Compare When I arrived, they were eating dinner. - the action was in progress when I arrived When I arrived, they ate their dinner - I arrived, and then they started dinner. In the question we have to invert the words like this.... What  were you doing  at 3pm yesterday? More practice  here  and here . We then looked at the past perfect. This is formed like this.... had + past participle (third form of the verb) We usually use it with the past simple to talk about an action that happened before the past simple verb..... Last night my friend invited me to dinner. Unfortunately, I had already eaten .  The past perfect - had eaten - tells us what happened first. compare.... When I got home, the children we...

In this class we looked at the Present Perfect Continuous I have been living in Sligo for 4 years. have has               +               been             +            verb-ing We use it to describe an action or a situation that started in the past and continues to the present. We use it with "for" and "since". I have been playing guitar for 20 years. I have been playing guitar since 1997. More practice exercises here . We then moved on to p.76 and the story of the Bald Knight. The verbs are initially in the past simple tense. note: Fall - fell feel - felt We then looked at some sentences like this.... "he was riding along, singing merrily to himself....." "He was riding" is the Past Continuous we talked about what we were doing at a particular time the day before At 4pm I was studying I was cooking We use th...