Introduction
Trajni preteklik (ali progresivni) [past continuous or progressive] je čas, ki ga uporabljamo za opisovanje situacij, ki so se zgodile v preteklosti in so potekale v kateremkoli trenutku nekega časovnega obdobja.
Ko so v vprašalni obliki, sprašujejo nekaj glede stvari, ki so se dogajale v preteklem časovnem obdobju.
Form
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
- Daljše dejanje, ki poteka v ozadju, in ki ga prekine krajše dejanje
- 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?
- Dogodek, ki je potekal ob točno določenem času v preteklosti
- 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?
- Neprekinjeno dejanje, ki je nekaj časa potekalo
- Was I running?
- Was he crossing the road?
- Were we watching TV during our break?
- Dolžina časovnega obdobja v preteklosti
- 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?
- Pretekla sočasna dejanja
- 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?
- Zaporednost dejanj, ki so se zgodila v preteklosti
- 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?
- Ponavljajoče se ali nadležno dejanje
- 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 v vprašalni obliki uporabljamo, ko sprašujemo o dogodkih ali dejanjih, ki so potekala v preteklosti. Ponavadi želimo pokazati, da so trajala dlje časa.
Past continuous uporabljamo v naslednjih primerih:
- Daljše dejanje v ozadju, ki ga prekine nepričakovano krajše dejanje (nenadoma se nekaj zgodi, medtem ko drugo daljše dejanje že poteka);
- Dogodek, ki je potekal v točno določenem času v preteklosti (izraženi so datum, ura ali specifične informacije o dogodku, ki je potekal v preteklosti);
- Neprekinjeno dejanje, ki je potekalo nekaj časa (dogodek, ki je dalj časa potekal v preteklosti);
- Dolžina časovnega obdobja v preteklosti (dogodek, ki je dalj časa potekal v preteklosti);
- Pretekla istočasna dejanja (dva dogodka sta se zgodila istočasno);
- Zaporednost dejanj v preteklosti (ponavadi uporabljamo za opis situacij, v katerih je več dogodkov potekalo istočasno);
- Ponavljajoče se ali nadležno dejanje (z always ali s podobnimi izrazi, ki namigujejo na idejo ponavljajočega se dogodka).
Summary
Trajni preteklik [past continuous] v vprašalni obliki uporabljamo za spraševanje o situacijah, ki so se zgodile v preteklosti in so potekale v vsakem trenutku nekega časovnega obdobja.
Struktura je:
Was/Were + subject + [verb + -ing] + …?
Na primer:
— “Was I playing football when the phone rang?” = Past continuous uporabljamo zato, da vprašamo, ali je bilo kaj prekinjeno, ko je zazvonil telefon.
♦ “Did I play football?” = Past simple uporabljamo, ko sprašujemo o dejanju, ki se je začelo in končalo v preteklosti.
Ponovi to vsebino v delu {Form} in si poglej del {Example}, ki prikazuje rabo v kontekstu.