Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Pasado simple / pasado continuo

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Past simple/ continuous quizzes

Past simple and past continuous

Past simple or Past continuous
PAST TENSE SIMPLE
  • formation: regular verb + ed OR irregular verb (past form)
    e.g.: I liked the lesson yesterday. OR I met my teacher yesterday.
  • Use: actions in the past that are over and completed
  • Signal words: yesterday, last week, last year, last..., in 1995, in July (last year), on Monday (last week), ago
  • Negation: did not + base form OR was/were not
    e.g.: I didn´t help her yesterday. We were not at the party last week.
  • Question: with did + base form OR was/were
    e.g.: Did you help her yesterday? Were you at the party last week?

PAST CONTINUOUS
  • formation: was/were + verb + ing
    e.g.: The children were playing in the garden.
  • Use: - actions in the past that took a long time
- two actions in the past that happened simultaneously
- a long action in the past that is interrupted by a short action. The long action is in past progressive and the short action is in past simple then.
  • Signal words: when, while
    e.g.: Yesterday the children were playing in the garden
    while we were having tea. two long actions that happen simultaneously
    e.g.: I was washing the car
    when the phone rang. one long action (past continuous) that is interrupted by a short action (past simple).
  • Negation: was/were + not
    e.g.: The boys weren't playing football at five yesterday.
  • Question: was/were
    e.g.: Were the boys playing football at five yesterday?


Past simple

Past Simple





Affirmative
Negative
Interrogative
To Be

It was big.
They were happy.
It wasn´t big.
They weren´t happy.
Was it big?
Were they happy.?
There was
There were
There was a boy.
There were some children.
There wasn’t a boy.
There weren´t any children.
Was there a boy?

Were there any children?
Past Simple (regular)

He looked at me.



He didn’t look at me.


Did he look at me?
Past Simple
( irregular)
I bought a coke.
I didn´t buy a coke.
Did I buy a coke?