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Past tenses Rodrigo Granados Ugalde A01652459 (Past simple (form…
Past tenses
Rodrigo Granados Ugalde
A01652459
Past simple
form
affirmative
Subject + verb in past
E.j. I
worked
yesterday
negative
E.j. You
didn´t work
yesterday
Subject + didn´t (did not) + verb in present
question
E.j.
Did
you
work
yesterday?
Did + subject + verb in present
short answers
E.j. Yes, we
did
/ No, we
didn´t
Yes/ no + subject + did/didn´t
use
Describe finished actions or situations in the past
Say that one thing happened after another
Past continous
Form
Affirmative
Subject + was/were + verb with ing
E.j. We
were studying
Negative
Subject + wasn´t/weren´t + verb with ing
E.j. They
weren´t (were not) playing
Question
Was/Were + subject + verb with ing
E.j.
Was
she
going
?
Short answers
Yes/No + subject + was/wasn´t/were/weren´t
Yes, we
were
/ No, we
weren´t
Use
Describe scenes in a story or description
Talk about an activity in progress when another, shorter activity happened or interrupted it.
Talk about activities in progress at a moment in the past
We often use while and as with the past continuous
Remember that some verbs are not usually used in the continuous.
past perfect
form
Affirmative
Subject + had + past participle
She
had seen
the film before
Negative
Subject + had not + past participle
They
hadn´t seen
the film before
question
Had + subject + past participle
Had
you
seen
the film before?
Short questions
Yes, subject + had / No, subject + hadn´t
Yes, iI
had
/ No, I
hadn´t
Use
We use past perfect to talk about actions that happened before another action or actions in the past
We often use time expressions such as
when, after, by the time as, as soon as...
with the past perfect