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Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect

The document provides examples of using different verb tenses in English, including the past simple, present simple, past continuous, and past perfect tenses. It gives examples sentences using common verbs like "to be", "to have", "to do" in simple declarative and interrogative sentences, as well as negative forms. Examples are provided of using these tenses to discuss events that took place in the past or were ongoing in the past.

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Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect

The document provides examples of using different verb tenses in English, including the past simple, present simple, past continuous, and past perfect tenses. It gives examples sentences using common verbs like "to be", "to have", "to do" in simple declarative and interrogative sentences, as well as negative forms. Examples are provided of using these tenses to discuss events that took place in the past or were ongoing in the past.

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PAST SIMPLE – ACTION VERBS (dance, play, study, write)

SUBJECT + VERB IN PAST+ COMPL

SUBJECT + DIDN’T / DID NOT + VERB IN INFINITIVE+ COMPLEMENT

DID + SUBJECT+ VERB IN INFINITIVE+ COMPLEMENT?

WHAT / WHERE/ WHEN/ WHY / HOW LONG + DID + SUBJECT+ VERB IN INFINITIVE+
COMPLEMENT?

WHAT DID YOU MOTHER DO YESTERDAY?

MY MOTHER COOKED .

MY MOTHER PLAYED SOCCER.

MY MOTHER READ A BOOK.

NEGATIVE

MY MOTHER DIDN’T COOK .

MY MOTHER DIDN’T PLAY SOCCER.

MY MOTHER DIDN’T READ A BOOK.

MY MOTHER READ A BOOK.

WHAT DID YOUR MOTHER READ ¿

A BOOK

MY MOTHER READ A BOOK TWO DAYS AGO.

WHEN DID YOUR MOTHER READ A BOOK ¿

TWO DAYS AGO

PRESENT: BE – AM/IS/ ARE

PAST: WAS / WERE

HE/SHE/IT : WAS

YOU/THEY/WE/YOU: WERE

WHERE DID YOUR MOTHER WAS YESTERDAY? INCORRECT!

WHERE WAS YOUR MOTHER YESTERDAY?

AT HOME

MY FATHER DIDN’T WAS AT THE PARTY. INCORRECT!!!

MY FATHER WASN’T AT THE PARTY.

MY CLASSMATES WERE UPSET .


MY CLASSMATES WEREN’T UPSET .

PAST CONTINUOUS

I/SHE/HE / IT + WAS + VING +COMPL

I/SHE/HE / IT + WASN’T + VING +COMPL

YOU/ WE/ THEY /YOU + WERE +VING+COMPL

YOU/ WE/ THEY /YOU + WEREN’T +VING+COMPL

WHAT WERE YOU DOING AT 6 PM YERTERDAY ¿

I WAS STUDYING.

I WAS SLEEPING.

I WAS WATCHING TV

WHERE WERE YOU GOING WHEN WE MET?

I WAS GOING TO BUY GROCERIES.

I WAS GOING TO THE DENTIST’S.

WHILE I WAS GOING HOME, I FOUND 100 DOLLARS.

MY MOTHER WAS TAKING A SHOWER WHEN YOU CALLED.

WHEN YOU CALLED, MY MOTHER WAS TAKING A SHOWER.

WHEN I WAS SLEEPING, MY SISTER WAS TAKING A SHOWER.

LAST NIGHT I WAS TRAVELLING TO QUITO WHEN SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENED TO ME.

WHEN I WAS ARRIVING TO SALCEDO , I MET MARIA.

MY COUSIN WAS WRITING A BOOK WHEN I VISITED HIM.

MY FATHER WAS PLAYING VIDEOGAMES WHEN I STARTED STUDYING.

MY SISTER WAS COOKING WHEN I ARRIVED.

MY MOTHER WAS STUDYING ENGLISH WHEN I STARTED SCHOOL.

WHY WAS YOUR MOTHER STUDYING ENGLISH WHEN YOU STARTED SCHOOL?

BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO TRAVEL TO NEW YORK.

WHAT WERE THE STUDENTS DOING WHEN THE TEACHER ARRIVED?

THEY WERE DOING HOMEWORK

WHERE WERE YOU GOING WHEN WE MET AT THE STATION?


WHAT WAS YOU COUSIN DOING WHEN YOU VISITED HIM?

HE WAS WRITING A BOOK.

WHERE WERE YOU GOING WHEN I RANG YOU UP?

I WAS GOING TO THE DENTIST’S

WHY WERE THE CHILDREN CRYING WHEN THE PARTY STARTED?

BECAUSE THE CHILDREN WERE HUNGRY.

PAST PERFECT.

DRINK DRANK DRUNK

TRAVEL TRAVELLED TRAVELLED

AM-IS-ARE WAS-WERE BEEN

SUBJECT+ HAD +VPAST PARTICIPLE +COMPL

SUBJECT+ HADN’T / HAD NOT +VPAST PARTICIPLE +COMPL

I HAD – I’D

SHE HAD – SHE’D

THEY HAD – THEY’D

(WOULD : I WOULD LIKE TO TRAVEL ABROAD)

I’D LIKE TO TRAVEL ABROAD.

2WHEN I ARRIEVED AT THE HOSPITAL , MY GRANDFATHER HAD DIED. 1

2WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE HOSPITAL , MY GRANDFATHER HAD ALREADY DIED

2WHEN WE WOKE UP, THE CAT HAD EATEN THE PARROT.1

2WHEN WE WOKE UP, THE CAT HAD JUST EATEN THE PARROT.1

WHEN THE CONCERT STARTED, WE HADN’T BEEN ABLE TO GET INTO.

SHE HAD READ THE BOOK THAT YOU GAVE ME YESTERDAY.

WHEN I HAD FELL SLEPT, IT STARTED TO RAIN

WHAT HAD HAPPENED WHEN YOU ARRIVED AT THE CHURCH?

THE PRIEST HAD FALLEN DOWN.

WHAT HAD YOUR SISTER BOUGHT WHEN YOU CALLED HER ¿

CANDIES.
SOFIA ARRIVED LATE BECAUSE HER BUS HAD BROKEN.

MY HUSBAND HAD FORGOTTEN HIS PHONE IN HIS OFFICE ,SO HE COULD NOT CALL US.

MY BABY HAD SPILLED WATER ON MY CELLPHONE ,SO WE COULD NOT TAKE PHOTOS AT THE
PARTY.

WE COULD NOT SLEEP BECAUSE WE HAD EATEN TOO MUCH FOOD.

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