Transcript Simple Past

Simple Past
Use: We use the Simple Past to describe actions that happened in the past.
Ex.: On Saturday, I exercised in the morning.
Form
Affirmative: SUBJECT + VERB (in the past) + COMPLEMENT.
Ex.: I studied for the test on Sunday.
Simple Past
Interrogative: DID + SUBJECT + VERB + COMPLEMENT+?
Ex.: Did you study for the test on Sunday?
Negative: SUBJECT + DID + NOT + VERB + COMPLEMENT.
Ex.: I did not study for the test on Sunday.
didn’t
Simple Past – Regular Verbs
Rules of spelling:
1 – General: watch – watched
2 – Verbs ending in –e: exercise – exercised
3 – Verbs ending in –y:
*consonant + Y: study – studied
*vowel + Y: stay – stayed
4 – 1-sillable verbs + CVC: shop – shopped
Past Continuous
Use: We use the Past Continuous to describe an action that was in process
when another action, also in the past, happened. For this punctual action, we
use the Simple Past.
Ex.: I was studying Spanish when the phone rang.
Form: verb to be in the past + main verb in –ING form
Affirmative: SUBJECT + WAS/WERE + VERB-ING + COMPLEMENT.
Ex.: I was cleaning the house when I found an old book.
Past Continuous
Interrogative: WAS/WERE + SUBJECT + VERB-ING + COMPLEMENT?
Ex.: Were they making too much noise?
Negative: SUBJECT + WAS/WERE + NOT + VERB-ING + COMPLEMENT.
Ex.: She was not cooking when we got there.
wasn’t
Important: Os verbos hear, see, smell, taste, understand, know, want e mean não
são usados na forma continuous.