⏰ Past Tense Study ⏰

¡Aprende el Past Simple y el Past Continuous! 🇬🇧

📖 Guía de Estudio: Past Tense

🔵 Past Simple con "be": Was / Were

El verbo "be" en pasado tiene dos formas: was (singular) y were (plural + you).

The verb "be" in the past has two forms: was and were.

✅ Forma positiva

Sujeto	Verbo	Ejemplo
I	was	I was happy.
You	were	You were at home.
He / She / It	was	She was tired.
We	were	We were friends.
You (plural)	were	You were late.
They	were	They were at school.

❌ Forma negativa

Sujeto	Forma completa	Forma corta
I	I was not	I wasn't
You	You were not	You weren't
He / She / It	He was not	He wasn't
We	We were not	We weren't
You (plural)	You were not	You weren't
They	They were not	They weren't

❓ Preguntas y respuestas cortas

Estructura: Was/Were + sujeto + complemento?

Was she at school? → Yes, she was. / No, she wasn't.
Were they happy? → Yes, they were. / No, they weren't.

📌 Positiva: I was at the park yesterday.

📌 Negativa: They weren't hungry.

📌 Interrogativa: Was he your teacher?

🔴 Past Simple con otros verbos

El Past Simple se usa para hablar de acciones que empezaron y terminaron en el pasado.

We use Past Simple for actions that started and finished in the past.

✅ Forma positiva

Estructura: Sujeto + verbo en pasado

Verbos regulares: verbo + -ed → I played football.
Verbos irregulares: forma especial → She went to school.

❌ Forma negativa

Estructura: Sujeto + didn't + verbo en infinitivo

📌 I didn't play football.

📌 She didn't go to school.

⚠️ Con didn't, el verbo vuelve al infinitivo (sin -ed, sin forma irregular).

❓ Forma interrogativa

Estructura: Did + sujeto + verbo en infinitivo?

📌 Did you play football? → Yes, I did. / No, I didn't.

📌 Did she go to school? → Yes, she did. / No, she didn't.

📌 Positiva: We watched a movie last night.

📌 Negativa: He didn't eat breakfast.

📌 Interrogativa: Did they visit the museum?

🟡 Reglas ortográficas del Past Simple regular (Spelling Rules)

Para formar el pasado de los verbos regulares, se añade -ed, pero hay reglas especiales según la terminación del verbo.

📏 Regla general: añadir -ed

walk → walked

play → played

clean → cleaned

📏 Verbos que terminan en -e: añadir solo -d

live → lived

dance → danced

like → liked

📏 Verbos que terminan en consonante + y: cambiar -y por -ied

study → studied

carry → carried

try → tried

📏 Verbos cortos (CVC): doblar la última consonante + -ed

Si el verbo termina en consonante-vocal-consonante y es corto (una sílaba), se dobla la última consonante.

stop → stopped

plan → planned

clap → clapped

📏 Verbos que terminan en -l: doblar la -l + -ed

travel → travelled

cancel → cancelled

🟣 Verbos irregulares más comunes

Los verbos irregulares no siguen la regla de -ed. Hay que memorizarlos. Aquí tienes los más importantes:

Infinitive	Past Simple	Español
be	was / were	ser / estar
begin	began	empezar
break	broke	romper
bring	brought	traer
buy	bought	comprar
catch	caught	atrapar
come	came	venir
do	did	hacer
drink	drank	beber
eat	ate	comer
find	found	encontrar
fly	flew	volar
get	got	obtener
give	gave	dar
go	went	ir
have	had	tener
know	knew	saber
make	made	hacer / fabricar
read	read	leer
run	ran	correr
say	said	decir
see	saw	ver
sing	sang	cantar
sit	sat	sentarse
sleep	slept	dormir
speak	spoke	hablar
swim	swam	nadar
take	took	tomar / llevar
tell	told	decir / contar
think	thought	pensar
write	wrote	escribir

🟢 Expresiones temporales del Past Simple

Estas expresiones de tiempo nos ayudan a saber que debemos usar el Past Simple:

yesterday — ayer
last night / last week / last month / last year / last summer
two days ago / a week ago
on Monday / on Tuesday
in 2020
when I was young

📌 I visited my grandma last weekend.

📌 She called me two days ago.

📌 We went to the beach last summer.

📌 He played football yesterday.

💡 Truco: Si ves una de estas expresiones en una oración, probablemente necesitas usar Past Simple.

🟠 Past Continuous

El Past Continuous se usa para describir acciones que estaban ocurriendo en un momento del pasado.

We use Past Continuous for actions that were in progress at a specific time in the past.

Formación: sujeto + was/were + verbo con -ing

🎯 ¿Cuándo se usa?

Para describir algo que estaba ocurriendo durante un período de tiempo en el pasado.
Para describir dos acciones que ocurrían al mismo tiempo en el pasado.
Para describir una acción en progreso cuando otra acción la interrumpió (Past Continuous + Past Simple).

✅ Forma positiva

Sujeto	Forma	Ejemplo
I	was playing	I was playing football.
You	were playing	You were playing the guitar.
He / She / It	was playing	She was playing tennis.
We	were playing	We were playing in the park.
They	were playing	They were playing cards.

❌ Forma negativa

Estructura: Sujeto + was not (wasn't) / were not (weren't) + verbo-ing

📌 I wasn't watching TV.

📌 They weren't listening to music.

❓ Preguntas y respuestas cortas

Estructura: Was/Were + sujeto + verbo-ing?

Was she reading a book? → Yes, she was. / No, she wasn't.
Were they playing football? → Yes, they were. / No, they weren't.

📌 Positiva: I was studying when you called.

📌 Negativa: She wasn't sleeping at 10 pm.

📌 Interrogativa: Were you watching the match?

💡 Truco: Past Continuous + Past Simple → Una acción larga (continuous) fue interrumpida por una acción corta (simple).

📌 I was walking to school when it started to rain.

🎯 Tests Interactivos

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✏️ Conjugar verbos

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