Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Past Tense.
- Past
Perfect.
- Uses:
- Action that occurred in the past before another.
Actions that began in the past and continued until
a specific time in the past. Actions at a specific
time in the past.
- Sometimes, it can be used in conditional sentences.
- It is useful for indirect
report in order to
reuse what a person
said.
- Structure.
- ? = Auxiliary had + subject + verb participle + complement ?
- - = Subject + auxiliary had + not + verb participle + complement.
- + = Subject + auxiliary had + verb participle + complement.
- R = Yes, + subject + had + verb participle + complement.
No, + subject + had + not + verb participle + complement.
- Examples:
- + = I had watched movie in the park yesterday.
- - = Sara hadn't cooked at her brother's house.
- ? = Had he liked to listen to rock?
- R= Yes. he had.
- Past Continouos.
- Uses.
- Giving information about events or situations at a specific time.
- Mention two or more past actions that happened at the same time.
- Express actions or states that were taking place in the past
when another action or state interrupts or reinforces it.
- Structure.
- + = Subject + auxiliary verb (to be was / were) + verb (ing) + complement.
- - = Subject + auxiliary verb (to be was / were) + not + verb (ing) +
complement.
- ? = Auxiliary verb (to be was / were) + subject + verb (ing) + complement?
- R = Yes, + Subject + auxiliary verb (tobe was/ were) + verb (ing) + Complement.
- Examples
- ? = Were you calling Lucia while you were dating?
- No, I wasn't.
- + = Sara was talking to Marcus when she came out of class.
- - = They weren't dancing at the party when I arrived.
- Pas Perfect Continouos.
- Past Simple