Continuous forms

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Continuous forms T2

Continuous: ing 

You use the continuous form to add irritation or the fact that you were busy doing the activity

for instance:

I walked to school becomes:

I was walking to school when I noticed a burning house

exercise: fill in your own sentence with the continuous form

fill in your sentence with the continuous

next exercise:

think of a situation in which you can only use the continuous form

example: think of a situation with the past perfect continuous

situation:

something that happened before another time in the past (past perfect)

something that took a long time (ing-form :continuous)

for example

I had been cutting carrots for hours when he arrived home and told me to cut onions instead

fill in your sentence of the past perfect

example 2: present perfect continuous

situation of the present perfect continuous

something that happened in the past and still continuous:

something that took a long time:

fill in your own present perfect continuous form

Fill in the correct form of the continuous: They .... (walk) for hours when it began to rain

Fill in the correct form of the continuous form: John and Mary usually wear black but today they (wear ) white.

Fill in the correct form of the continuous form: In the future all people ... (pay) for accessing youtube.

Fill in the correct form of the continuous form:
Yamas ... (eat) grapes when Yullus interrupted him.

Fill in the correct form of the continuous form:
We (wait) ... for hours since we arrived. No one is helping us.