Grammar Focus - Past Continuous Tense and Adjective Clause

GRAMMAR FOCUS

1. The Past Continuous Tense

Positive Form	Negative Form	Question Form
I was studying	I was not studying	Was I studying?
He was studying	He was not studying	Was he studying?
They were studying	They were not studying	Were they studying?
S + to be + V-ing	S + to be (not) + V-ing	To be + S + V-ing

Note :

We use the Past Continuous Tense to talk about :

a.     Interrupted event in the past

The phone rang while I was washing up.

Simple past + while + past continuous

b.     Bacground details to events.

He  was watching TV at ten o’clock last night.

a.     Events which were in progress when another event occured.

George  was going really fast when he crashed into John.

Past continuous + when + simple past

2.   Adjective Clause

Note :

a.     Who is used when the first clause has a noun (people) as the subject. It will meet a verb in the second clause.

I thank to the man who help me.

b.     Whom is used when the first clause has a noun (people) as the object. It will meet a noun (people) too in second clause.

I know the man whom we visited last night.

c.     Whose is used when the first clause has noun (people) as the object. It will meet noun (people) or noun (thing) in the second clause.

She is the police whose daughter is my classmate.

They take pity to the boy whose car was stolen.

d.    Which is used when the subject in the first sentence is noun.

The newspaper which I bought this morning is torn.