Introduction
Prošlo trajno vrijeme [past continuous ili progressive] je glagolsko vrijeme koje se koristi za izricanje radnji koje su trajale neko vrijeme, koje su bile prekinute nekom drugom radnjom te za one koje su se događale paralelno s nekom drugom radnjom.
Kada se koristi u upitnom obliku, glagol postavlja pitanje o prošlosti.
Form
Past continuous, u upitnom obliku, ima ovu strukturu:
Was/Were + subject + [verb + -ing] + …?
- Was/were: past simple glagola to be.
Was/Were | Subject | Verb + -ing | Question Mark |
---|---|---|---|
Was | I | working | …? |
Were | you | working | …? |
Was | he/she/it | working | …? |
Were | we/you/they | working | …? |
Example
- Dulja radnja u pozadini koja je prekinuta kraćom
- Was I running in the park when you sent me that message?
- Was she doing sport when I called her?
- Were they watching TV when she got back from work?
- Događaj koji se dogodio u određenom trenutku u prošlosti
- Was I running in the park at 9 o’clock?
- Was she doing sport when I called her at 11:45?
- Were they still watching TV when she returned from work at 7 o’clock?
- Neprekinuta radnja koja je trajala određeno vrijeme
- Was I running?
- Was he crossing the road?
- Were we watching TV during our break?
- Duljina vremenskog perioda u prošlosti
- Was I working in the bakery on the opposite road last summer?
- Was she doing sport every day last year to prepare for the race?
- Were they watching TV all day when they were teenagers?
- Prošle paralelne radnje
- Was I running while she was walking?
- Was she doing sport while her mother was cooking?
- Were we talking while the kids were watching TV?
- Slijed događaja u prošlosti
- Were the kids playing on the grass, their parents sitting on the fence and teenagers running when you went to the park?
- Was her mother working on the laptop, her father watching TV and her sister studying when she went home?
- Were the patients reading magazines, talking on the phone and was the secretary typing anything on the computer while you were waiting at the doctor today?
- Ponovljene ili dosadne radnje (s always)
- Was I always going late to class?
- Was she doing sport everyday for years to become a good athlete?
- Were they always watching TV on high volume late at night?
Use
Past continuous, u upitnom obliku, koristimo za postavljanje pitanja o događajima koji su se dogodili u prošlosti. Najčešće se koristi kad želimo izreći da je neka radnja trajala duže vrijeme.
Past Continuous se koristi u slijedećim slučajevima:
- Dulja radnja u pozadini koja je prekinuta kraćom (nešto se iznenada dogodilo kad je druga, duža radnja još trajala);
- Događaj koji se dogodio u određenom trenutku u prošlosti (s datumom, satom ili određenom vremenskom informacijom o događaju);
- Neprekinuta radnja koja je trajala određeno vrijeme (događaj prošlosti koji je trajao duži vremenski period);
- Duljina vremenskog perioda u prošlosti (događaj u prošlosti koje je trajao duži vremenski period);
- Prošle paralelne radnje (dvije radnje koje su se odvijale u isto vrijeme);
- Slijed događaja u prošlosti (obično se koristi za opisivanje situacija u kojima su se u isto vrijeme odvijali različiti događaji);
- Ponovljene ili dosadne radnje (s always ili sličnim izrazima koji upućuju na ponovljeni događaj).
Summary
Prošlo trajno vrijeme [past continuous ili progressive], u upitnom obliku, koristimo za postavljanje pitanja o radnjama koje su trajale neko vrijeme, koje su bile prekinute nekom drugom radnjom te za one koje su se događale paralelno s nekom drugom radnjom.
Struktura:
Was/Were + subject + [verb + -ing] + …?
Naprimjer:
— “Was I playing football when the phone rang?” = Koristimo past continuous da pitamo je li neka radnja prekinula zvonjavu telefona.
♦ “Did I play football?” = Koristimo past simple da pitamo o radnji koja je počela i završila u prošlosti.
Pregledajte sadržaj u odjeljku [Form] te bacite pogled na odjeljak [Example] koji pokazuje njegovu upotrebu unutar konteksta.