SIMPLE PAST Was were She was a nurse was she a nuerse? You wrote a letter yesterday Did you write a letter yesterday? You did not (di´dn´t write a letter yesterday When did you write a letter? SIMPLE PAST to be la mayoría de verbos Was were She was a nurse was she a nuerse? She wasn’t a nurse What was she? Irregular Estos verbos deben consultarse en el diccionario, o en la lista de verbos irregulares. Regular Les agregamos (ed); cuando no los encontremos en la lista de verbos irregulares. El verbo auxiliar did será la ayuda a estos verbos para formar su forma interrogativa y negativa He studied french Did he study french? He did not study french What did he study ? Explicacion: Cuando creamos oraciones con el verbo to be en pasado se usa was y were USO: SE USA ESTE TIEMPO PARA HABLAR DE HECHOS DEL PASADO QUE SE HICIERON HABITUALMENTE ( YA NO SE HACEN). PARA HABLAR DE UN EVENTO CONCRETO QUE OCURRIO EN EL PASADO
Simple past to write ( escribir) Affirmative Interrogative Negative I wrote. Did I write? I did not write. You wrote. Did you write? You did not write. He/She/It wrote . Did he/she/it write? He/She/It did not write. We wrote. Did we write? We did not write. They wrote. Did they write? They did not write.
PAST TENSE OF REGULAR VERBS Para formar el pasado de los verbos regulares hay que añadirles "- ED" Ejemplo: work - worked Cuando el verbo termina en "-e" solo se añade "-D": Ejemplo: Move - moved Si el verbo termina en "consonante+y" se sustituye la "y" por "i" y luego se añade "ED": Ejemplo: Try - tried Cuando el verbo tiene una sola sílaba y acaba en una consonante precedida por una vocal, se duplica la última consonante y luego se añade "ED": Ejemplo: Stop - stopped