PAST COUNTINUOUS TENSE IN English/ MASA LALU COUNTINUOUS Tense DI Inggris FOR CLASS XI IPS ENGLISH

PAST COUNTINUOUS TENSE IN English

(Source: Sudarwati. Look Ahead. Jakarta: Erlangga.)

Past countinuous tense:

Subject + was/ were + present participle (Verb-ing form)

Examples:

Ø  He was wearing a uniform.

Ø  The birds were singing.

Positive Sentences:

Ø  I was going home.

Ø  She was cooking in the kitchen.

Negative sentences:

Ø  You were not working.

Ø  They were not working.

Question sentences:

Ø  Were they talking on the phone?

Ø  Was she going home?

Ø  Where was she going?

Ø  What were they doing?

Function:

1)      Past Continuous is used to express an activity happening at a particular time in the past. : e.g. : what were you doing at 8 o’clock last night?

2)      Past continuous is used to express an activity that is interrupted. E

e.g.:

Ø  When we arrived home, my sister was making some coffee.

Ø  While I was having a bath, the phone rang.

Example in the text:

The plane was late and detectives waiting at the airport all morning. They expected a valuable parcel of diamonds from South Africa. A few hours earlier, someone had told the police that thieves would try steal the diamonds. When the plane arrived some of the detectives were waiting inside the main building while others were waiting on the airfield. Two men took the parcel off the plane and carried into the Customs House. While two dectectives were keeping guard at the door, two others opened the parcel. To their surprise, the precious parcel was full of stones and sand!

(Taken from : Parctice and Progress, L.A. Hill)

IN INDONESIAN (with google translate English-indonesian)

MASA LALU COUNTINUOUS Tense DI Inggris


(Sumber:. Sudarwati Look Ahead Jakarta:.. Erlangga)


Lalu countinuous tegang:


Subyek+  adalah / adalah + hadir participle (kata kerja bentuk-ing)

contoh:


 Dia mengenakan seragam.

 Burung-burung bernyanyi.


Kalimat Positif:

 aku akan pulang.

 Dia sedang memasak di dapur.


Negatif kalimat:


 Anda tidak bekerja.

 Mereka tidak bekerja.


Pertanyaan kalimat:

 Apakah mereka berbicara di telepon?

 Apakah ia akan pulang?

 mana dia pergi?

 Apa yang mereka lakukan?


fungsi:

1) Continuous Past digunakan untuk menyatakan kegiatan yangterjadi pada waktu tertentu di masa lalu. : Misalnya : Apa yang Anda lakukan pukul 8 malam?

2) terus menerus lalu digunakan untuk menyatakan kegiatan yangterganggu. E

misalnya:

 Ketika kami tiba di rumah, kakak saya sedang membuat kopi.

 Sementara aku harus mandi, telepon berdering.


Contoh dalam naskah:


Pesawat terlambat dan detektif menunggu di bandara pagi. Merekadiharapkan sebidang berharga dari berlian dari Afrika Selatan.Beberapa jam sebelumnya, seseorang telah mengatakan kepada polisi bahwa pencuri akan mencoba mencuri berlian. Ketika pesawat tiba beberapa detektif sedang menunggu di dalambangunan utama sementara yang lainnya menunggu di lapangan terbang. Dua orang mengambil paket dari pesawat dan dibawa keGedung Bea Cukai. Sementara dua dectectives yang berjaga di pintu, dua orang lain membuka paket itu. Namun yang mengejutkan,bingkisan berharga penuh dengan batu dan pasir!

(Diambil dari: Parctice dan Kemajuan, L.A. Hill)