Portfolio Entry # 5: Past Simple Tense

PAST SIMPLE TENSE – MEANING, USE & FORM

1.   MEANING AND USE

•         to talk about the past. (Para hablar de acciones en pasado finalizadas)

He worked at McDonald's.

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2.   FORM - Forma

With most verbs, the past tense is formed by adding –ed, -ied , -d  (La mayorìa de los verbos en pasado se forman agregando -ed , -ied o -d al final del verbo, estos se demoninan VERBOS REGULARES)

Call - called Like - liked Watch - watched  Study - studied

But there are a lot of irregular past tense forms in English. Here are the most common irregular verbs in English, with their past tense forms (Hay muchos verbos los cuales no tienen el tipo de cambio mencionado anteriormente, ya que son IRREGULARES y su forma cambia completamente. Existe una lista en donde los podemos encontrar. A continuación tenemos los verbos irregulares mas comunes)

Base form	Past tense
be begin break bring buy build choose come cost cut do draw drive eat feel find get give go have hear hold keep know leave lead let lie lose make mean meet pay put run say sell send set sit speak spend stand take teach tell think understand wear win write	was/were began broke brought bought built chose came cost cut did drew drove ate felt found got gave went had heard held kept knew left led let lay lost made meant met paid put ran said sold sent set sat spoke spent stood took taught told thought understood wore won wrote

AFFIRMATIVE - Afirmativo

EXAMPLE 1: I went to the cinema with Fred last night

                          👇🏻                                  👉🏻 Adverbial Phrase of time from the past

      ( Past from GO – Irregular verb)

           

EXAMPLE 2:   I visited some friends yesterday morning.

                             👇🏻                                        👇🏻         

                         Verb + ed        Adverbial Phrase from the Past

NEGATIVE - Negativo 

We use didn't (did not) to make negatives with the past simple. (Para hacer oraciones negativas en pasado usamos el auxiliar DIDN`T y el verbo en infinitivo)

They didn't go to Spain this year. 
We didn't get home until very late last night. 
I didn't see you yesterday.  

QUESTION - Preguntas 

We use did to make questions with the past simple (Para formar oraciones interrogativas, utilizamos el auxiliar del tiempo pasado DID. Este axuliar se ubica adelante de la oraciòn y si hay un encabezador de pregunta "wh-" luego del mismo)

          Did she play tennis when she was younger?
           Did you live abroad?
           When did you meet your wife?
           Where did you go for your holidays?

But questions with who often don't use did (Las preguntas con "Who" por lo general no usan el auxiliar "Did")

     Who discovered penicillin?
     Who wrote Don Quixote?