SIMPLE PAST

USOS• Expresa acciones acabadas en un

periodo de tiempo también acabado: “Yesterday we had a wonderful at the

theme park” I went home as soon as we finished

packing.

PAST CONTINUOS

• Afirmativo: He was timing us up on his stop watch.

• Interrogativo: Were you waiting at the bus stop?

• Negativo: They weren´t listening to you.

USOS• Se utiliza para recalcar la duración de

una acción pasada en un periodo de tiempo también acabado:

“Yesterday I was the whole afternoon revising for the final exams”

• Con la partícula “always” para mostrar disgusto por una acción que se repite:

• “He is always taking my things without permission”

• En combinación con un pasado simple para indicar la más larga de dos acciones pasadas.

“I was having a shower when the phone rang”

• En combinación con otro pasado continuo para indicar dos acciones pasadas, simultáneas y de más o menos la misma duración.

“While I was knitting, he was reading the newspaper”

• Future in the past: Indica una acción que “era futura” en el momento al cual hace referencia la oración.

They were coming for lunch but the baby got ill.

I didn´t phone him so he didn´t know that I was having an operation on Monday.

PAST PERFECT• Afirmative:

I had finished my lunch.

• Interrogative: Had they met before?

• Negative: She hadn´t been there before.

USOS• Expresa una acción pasada que tuvo lugar con

anterioridad a otra acción, que aparece en pasado simple, o a un periodo de tiempo pasado.

• When you rang her up, she had left.• At 5.00 I had already filled in all the

information.

• Pasado simple y continuo Ron: What / you / do / between 8 and 11 o´clock last night?Liz: I / visit/ my friend Jim.Ron: What time/ you / arrive/ at Jim´s flat/?Liz: I / get / there / at about 8.30.Ron: Jim / wait / for you/ when/ you / get/ there/ ?Liz: No. He / not Know/ that / I / come. PAST SIMPLE, CONTINUOUS OR PERFECT We ____ (miss) the beginning of the play because it _____ (already/start) when we_____( arrive).I ___ (not/recognise) my old teacher because I _____ (not/see) her for 15 years.The poor chap _____(die) . All we could do was comfort him.The poor chap ______ (die) early next morning.When Elizabeth I ___ (die) in 1603, she ______ (reign) for over 40 years.I ____ (write) to the shop to ask if my books ______ (arrive).Henry ______ (come) back from holiday to find that someone _____ (break) into his house.