Present continuous. 1.He was playing football when their mother called rhem. 2.At 8 o'clock last night I was talking on the telephone. 3.The birds were in the garden and the sun was hot. 4.I was sitting outside in the garden when something strange happened 5.He was buying a new telephone for his sister all this morning. Вопросы: 1.Where he was when his mother calling him? 2.When i was talking on the telephone? 3.Where were birds? 4.Where i was when something strange happened? 5.What he was doing all this morning?
P. cont используется: 1) для действия, которое было в процессе (ну, длилось некоторое время) в определенное время в at 9 o'clock last night we were watching tv. 2) для времени, которое было в процессе, когда другое действие прервало продолжительное. действие в процессе продолжительное, действие, которое прервало -- в простом she was cooking dinner when the doorbell rang. 3) для нескольких действий, которые происходили в одно и то же время в David were reading the newspaper while Sara was watching TV.