Question

A group of people were staying in a hotel when the fire alarm rang. Use the following words to make
sentences saying what each person was doing at the time.
Example: Don /have/ a bath Don was having a bath
1. Ann / write / a letter
2. George / sleep/his room
3. Carol and Dennis / have / dinner
4. Tom/make/a phone call
5. Andrew / drink/a cup of coffee​

Answer 1

Respuesta:

1 Ann was writing a letter

2 George was sleeping in his room

3 Carol and Dennis were having dinner

4 Tom was making a phone call

5 Andrew was drinking a cup of coffee

Explicación:

El pasado continuo se construye con pasado del Verbo to be Was o Were + Verbo con ING

Answer 2

Se escriben oraciones de lo que estaba haciendo un grupo de personas (a group of people) que se hospedaba en un hotel cuando sonó la alarma contra incendios (the fire alarm rang), utilizando el pasado continuo:

1. Ann was writing a letter.
2. George was sleeping in his room.
3. Carol and Dennis were having dinner.
4. Tom was making a phone call.
5. Andrew was drinking a cup of coffee.

¿Para qué se usa el pasado continuo?

Se utiliza para hablar de una acción que ocurrió en el pasado y continúo durante cierto periodo de tiempo. Se debe utilizar el verbo “to be” para construir este tiempo verbal. Las oraciones afirmativas tienen la siguiente estructura dependiendo del sujeto de la oración:

• Sujeto (I, he, she, it) + was + verbo en ing + complemento
• Sujeto (you, we, they) + were + verbo en ing + complemento

Aprende más sobre el pasado continuo (past continuous) aquí: https://brainly.lat/tarea/14665739

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