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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Tense "forms"

I have to give the "form" for a tense, for example:
Graham _was having_ a bath
What is the "form" of _was having_? I know it is the past continuous but I have been asked to identify the form.
Thanks for any help
  

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Anonymous What is the "form" of was having ? I really don't know what your teacher wants. 'Was having' is a first- and third-person singular past simple continuous verb phrase.

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous What is the "form" of was having ?
  • I really don't know what your teacher wants.
  • 'Was having' is a first- and third-person singular past simple continuous verb phrase.
  • I don't know what else to say about it
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AnonymousWhat is the "form" of was having?
I really don't know what your teacher wants. 'Was having' is a first- and third-person singular past simple continuous verb phrase. I don't know what else to say about it
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AnonymousI know it is the past continuous but I have been asked to identify the form.
It seems to me that "past continuous" is the form.

Puzzling assignment.

CJ
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Perhaps the teacher expects something like:

The past continuous is formed with the past simple of the auxiliary verb BE and the -ing form of the full verb
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