GRAMMAR
THEORY 6
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1. We use the past
continous to describe
past events.
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2. We form the past
continous with
was/were + -ing form.
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3. “He wasn’t listening” is
an example of the past
continuous negative.
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4. This is an example of a
past continous question:
Was he looking?
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5. “We were looking The London
Eye when my friend fell in the
river”. In this sentence, the first
verb is in the past continous.
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6. We use “going to”
to talk about future
plans and intentions.
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7. We also use “going
to” to talk about things
that we do every day.
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8. After “going to”, we
use the infinitive of
the verb.
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9. This is an example of
the “going to” future: he
is going to see his sister.
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10. To make a negative
sentence, we add not before
the words “going to”.
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