Bonjour
Le Preterit continuous
1- She was having a bath when my telephone rang.
She wasn't having a bath when my telephone rang.
Was she having a bath whe my telephone rang ?
2. She was doing the washing up.
She wasn't doing the washing up.
Was she doing the washing up ?
3. She was walking her dog.
She wasn't walking her dog.
Was she walking her dog?
4. They were sleeping in the hotel.
They weren't sleeping in the hotel.
Were they sleeping in the hotel?
5. We were running to the swimming-pool.
We weren't running to the swimming pool.
Were we running to the swimming pool ?
6. They .were working at the post office.
They weren't working at the post office
Were they working at the post office?
7. Mrs Lee was singing in the bathroom.
Mrs Lee wasn't singing in her bathroom.
Was Mrs Lee singing in her bathroom ?
8. She was swiming in the swimming pool.
She wasn't swimming in the swimming pool.
Was she swimming in the swimming pool.
9. He was making exercices
He wasn't making exercises.
Was he laking exercises ?
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Rien de très compliqué, à part quelques doublement de consonnes pour mettre la forme Base Verbale + -ing, comme running, swimming...
En Anglais, il y a doublement de consonne quand il y a consonne/voyelle/consonne... (ou si tu préfères, quand une voyelle est entourée de 2 consonnes) et bien sûr en fin de mot...
Exemples =
big => bigger
fat => fatter
run => running
swim => swimming
stop => stopped / stopping
sit ==> sitting
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Pour le reste, c'est l'auxiliaire be utilisé au preterit (was/were) suivi de la BV +-ing.
Be étant un auxiliaire, ajout de not entre be et la BV et inversement du sujet et de be dans les phrases interrogatives
Pas besoin d'utiliser l'auxilaire did comme dans les formes simples.
Dernière chose, souviens-toi, que dans les formes simples, BE étant un auxiliaire, il n'a pas besoin de do ou did.
I was busy. ==> was I busy ? ==> I wasn't busy
I am busy ? => am I busy ? ==> I am not busy.
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bonne journée ☺☺☺
