在英语语法时态中,过去时态是我们经常会用到的一种时态,过去将来进行时也是一种比较抽象的时态,所以,在掌握过去将来进行时时态的同时也一定要掌握它和别的时态的区别和比较,在我们平常的英语句子应用中,比较容易混淆的是过去将来时和过去将来进行时,让我们先来了解一下它们之间的用法和区别:
一、过去将来进行时的定义以及在英语句子中的用法解析:
1、过去将来进行时的定义:过去将来进行时表示就过去某一时间而言,将来某一时刻或某一段时间正在进行的动作,主要用于宾语从句中,尤其多用于间接引语中.
2、过去将来进行时由should(would)+be+现在分词构成.
They said they would be coming.
他们说了他们将要来.
He asked me what I should be doing at six the next day.
他问我次日六点将正在做什么.
3、用于间接引语中.
The new job he would be taking was raising racing horses.
他将要接受的新工作是养赛马.
4、用于定语从句中.
5、过去将来进行时可以表示在过去某一时间之后即将进行的动作.
He said he could not come because he would be having a meeting.
他说他不能来因为要开会.

二、过去将来时的基本结构是:would+动词原形或was/ were going to+动词原形,例如:
1.The farmers didn’t know whether they would have a good harvest.
农民们不知道他们是否会有一个好收成.
2.Li Mei said that she was going to visit her grandma in the country the next Sunday.
李梅说下星期天要去看望她乡下的祖母.

三.过去将来时的定义以及其在英语句子中的用法:
过去将来时表示从过去某个时间看将来要发生的动作或存在的状态。具体分为:
1.主句为过去时,宾语从句常表示将要发生的事情.如:
Nobody knew what would happen after a hundred years.
没有人知道一百年之后将会发生什么事.
We didn’t know whether she was going to speak at the meeting.
我们不知道她是否准备在会上发言.
2.在叙述过去的事情或事情发生的经过时,用过去将来时表示在当时看将来会发生的事.如:It was a Saturday afternoon.A young man named George had just left school.He was going to start to work the following week,so he decided to buy some new clothes and a new pair of shoes.一个星期六的下午,一位名叫乔治的年轻人刚离开学校.因为他准备下周开始工作,所以,决定买些新衣服和一双新鞋子.

四.过去将来时的其他表示法:
1.在时间或条件状语从句中,常用一般过去时表示在过去看将来要发生的动作.如:
They said that they were going to West Hill Farm if it didn’t rain the next Sunday.他们说如果下星期天不下雨他们就去西山农场.
The teacher asked Tom what he was going to be when he grew up.老师问汤姆长大后准备干什么.
2.go,come,leave,fly,drive,arrive,start等表示位置移动的动词常用过去进行时表示一个当时按计划或安排近期将要发生的动作.如:
1)She didn’t say when she was coming again next time.
她没说下一次什么时候会再来.
2)Jim decided they were flying to England next month.
吉姆决定他们下个月坐飞机去英国.