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1) Simple Past:: Formación Del "Simple Past" Con Verbos Regulares

The document discusses the simple past and past continuous tenses in Spanish. The simple past is used to talk about completed actions in the past, including specific times like "last week" or non-specific times like "a long time ago." Irregular verb forms are given for common irregular verbs like "go," "give," and "come." The past continuous describes unfinished or ongoing actions situated prior to the present. It is used to describe context and interrupted actions. The formation combines the past form of "to be" with the verb stem + "ing." Examples of regular verb conjugations in the past continuous tense are provided.

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1) Simple Past:: Formación Del "Simple Past" Con Verbos Regulares

The document discusses the simple past and past continuous tenses in Spanish. The simple past is used to talk about completed actions in the past, including specific times like "last week" or non-specific times like "a long time ago." Irregular verb forms are given for common irregular verbs like "go," "give," and "come." The past continuous describes unfinished or ongoing actions situated prior to the present. It is used to describe context and interrupted actions. The formation combines the past form of "to be" with the verb stem + "ing." Examples of regular verb conjugations in the past continuous tense are provided.

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1)Simple past: The "simple past" is used to talk about an action that ended earlier

than the current one. The duration is not relevant. The time in which the action is
situated can be the recent past or the distant past.

Frequency often, sometimes, always


I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.
I often brought my lunch to school

a specified time: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago

We saw a good film last week.

Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva.

She finished her work atseven o'clock

I went to the theater last night

an indeterminate time: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago People lived in
caves a long time ago.

She played the piano when she was a child

Formación del "simple past" con verbos regulares


To Walk

Afirmativa Negativa Interrogativa

I walked I didn't walk Did I walk?

You walked You didn't walk Did you walk?

He walked He didn't walk Did he walk?

We walked We didn't walk Did we walk?

They walked They didn't walk Did they walk?

"Simple past": verbos irregulares


Algunos verbos hacen el "simple past" de forma irregular. Estos son los más comunes.

to go

 He went to a club last night.


 Did he go to the cinema last night?
 He didn't go to bed early last night.

to give

 We gave her a doll for her birthday.


 They didn't give John their new address.
 Did Barry give you my passport?
to come

 My parents came to visit me last July.


 We didn't come because it was raining.
 Did he come to your party last week?

2)Past continuo: The "past continuous" describes actions or events situated in a


time prior to the present, whose beginning is situated in the past and which has not
yet concluded at the moment of speaking. In other words, it expresses an
incomplete or unfinished action from the past.

It is used: Often to describe the context in a story written in the past, e.g. "The sun
was shining and the birds were singing as the elephant came out of the jungle.
The other animals were relaxing in the shade of the trees, but the elephant moved
very quickly. She was looking for her baby, and she didn't notice the hunter who
was watching her through his binoculars. When the shot rang out, she was
running towards the river.”to describe an incomplete action that was interrupted by
another action or event, e.g. "I was having a beautiful dream when the alarm clock
rang." to express a change of mind: e.g. "I was going to spend the day at the
beach but I've decided to get my homework done instead." with 'wonder', to
formulate a very polite request: e.g. "I was wondering if you could baby-sit for me
tonight."

Formación del "past continuous"

The "past continuous" of any verb is made up of two parts: the past of the verb "to
be" (was / were) and the stem of the main verb + ing

Sujeto was/were raíz + ing

They were watching

Afirmativa

She was reading

Negativa

She wasn't reading


Sujeto was/were raíz + ing

Interrogativa

Was she reading?

Interrogativa negativa

Wasn't she reading?

To play, "past continuous"

Afirmativa Negativa Interrogativa

I was playing I was not playing Was I playing?

You were playing You were not playing Were you playing?

He was playing He wasn't playing Was he playing?

We were playing We weren't playing Were we playing?

They were playing They weren't playing Were they playing?

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