Zusammenfassung der Ressource
PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS
- PRESENT
CONTINUOUS
- Rules to add -ing to the main verb
- General rule
(Most verbs)
- added: -ing
- examples
- wear wearing
drink drinking
play playing
- Verbs ending in: -e
- -e is removed and added:
-ing
- examples
- dance dancing
have having
make making
- Verbs ending in: consonant +
vowel + consonant
- Doblan la última consonante y
se añade: -ing
- examples
- run running
sit sitting
swim
swimming
- AFFIRMATIVE
- LONG FORM
- I am drinking
- You are singing
- He is dancing
- She is running
- It is playing
- We are eating
- Yuo are jumping
- They are studying
- NEGATIVE
- LONG FORM
- I am not drinking
- You are not singing
- He is not dancing
- She is not running
- It is not playing
- We are not eating
- Yuo are not jumping
- They are not studying
- INTERROGANTIVE
- LONG FORM
- Am I drinking?
- Are you singing?
- Is he dancing?
- Is she running?
- Is it playing?
- Are we eating?
- Are you jumping?
- Are they studying?
- PAST SIMPLE
- The past simple is used:
- For an action that started and ended in the
past. *I saw a ghost last Friday.
- For a repeated action in the past.
- *When I was young, I watched lots of
television every day after school.* *I always
gave my mother flowers on her birthday.
*(We could also say, I used to watch lots of
television.)
- Regular past simple tense verbs end in -ed
- *I talked to my uncle yesterday. *I
phoned my girlfriend this morning.
- Irregular past simple tense verbs do not end in -ed.
- You need to learn irregular past tense verbs. *I felt
sick yesterday morning so I went to the doctor.
- PAST CONTINUOUS
- PAST CONTINUOUS
- past continuous tense is used:
When talking about TWO actions
in the past; one continues for a
period, and the other starts and
ends (past simple).
- *While I was talking on
the phone, someone
stole my car. *I was
making breakfast when
the cat knocked over the
milk carton, so I burnt
the toast.
- These sentences
usually use while or
when.
- To talk about TWO
actions in the past,
both happening over
a period. *I was
working on my
computer and my
children were
watching television.
- To talk about a
TEMPORARY activity
taking place over a
limited time. The
past continuous
tense is was / were +
the present
participle.
- I was living in
Indooroopilly
when it
happened. *I
was staying at
my friend's
house while
my parents
were touring
Italy
- The present participle is
the base of a verb + ing i.e.
walk walking