9.3.1.1 Formation du simple past continuous (le prétérit continu)


Comme nous l' avons déjà dit dans le chapitre sur le simple present, la forme continue est toujours formée avec la forme de to be correspondante. Il en est de même avec le simple past. On forme le simple past continuous avec le simple past du verbeauxiliaire to be.

Exemples          
forme de 'to be' + verbe principal + Redoublement de la consonne + suffixe -ing = past continuous  
I was
read
ing I was reading
you were
jump
ing you were jumping
he was
buy
ing he was buying
we were
sell
ing we were selling
you were
wait
ing you were waiting
they were
write
ing they were writing




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