Past Simple y Past Continuous en inglés: verbos irregulares, estructuras y uso con WHEN y WHILE

Verbos irregulares en inglés

Be, was/were – Become, became – Begin, began – Blow, blew – Break, broke – Bring, brought – Build, built – Buy, bought – Can, could – Catch, caught – Choose, chose – Come, came – Cost, cost – Cut, cut – Do, did – Draw, drew – Drink, drank – Drive, drove – Eat, ate – Fall, fell – Feed, fed – Feel, felt – Fight, fought – Find, found – Fly, flew – Forget, forgot – Get, got – Give, gave – Go, went – Grow, grew – Have, had – Hear, heard – Hide, hid – Hit, hit – Keep, kept – Know, knew – Learn, learnt.

Leave, left – Lend, lent – Let, let – Light, lit – Lose, lost – Make, made – Meet, met – Pay, paid – Put, put – Read, read – Ride, rode – Ring, rang – Rise, rose – Run, ran – Say, said – See, saw – Sell, sold – Send, sent – Shine, shone – Show, showed – Shut, shut – Sing, sang – Sit, sat – Sleep, slept – Smell, smelt – Speak, spoke – Spend, spent – Stand, stood – Steal, stole – Swim, swam – Take, took – Teach, taught – Tell, told – Think, thought – Throw, threw – Understand, understood – Wake, woke – Wear, wore – Win, won – Write, wrote.

Past Simple

Afirmativo

Sujeto + verbo en pasado (forma irregular) / verbo + ED + complemento.

Negativo

Sujeto + did not (didn't) + verbo en infinitivo + complemento.

Interrogativo

Did + sujeto + verbo en infinitivo + complemento?

Past Continuous

Afirmativo

Sujeto + was/were + verbo + ing + complemento.

I, she, he, it + was + speaking English. / We, you, they + were + watching TV.

Negativo

Sujeto + was/were + not (wasn't/weren't) + verbo + ing + complemento.

I, she, he, it + wasn't + speaking English. / We, you, they + weren't + watching TV.

Interrogativo

Was/Were + sujeto + verbo + ing + complemento?

Was I, she, he, it + speaking English? / Were we, you, they + watching TV?

Preguntas con Past Continuous

Pregunta: Wh- + was/were + sujeto + verbo + ing + complemento?

Respuesta: Sujeto + was/were + verbo + ing + complemento.

Yes/No: Yes, no.

Preguntas con Past Simple

Pregunta: Wh- + did + sujeto + verbo en infinitivo + complemento?

Respuesta: Afirmativa o negativa.

Past Simple + Past Continuous

WHEN significa cuando. WHILE significa mientras.

Jose was sitting on the beach with his family WHEN the incident started.

WHEN I looked up, I saw the shark in the water.

WHILE he was fighting the creature, some people called the emergency services.

She broke her leg WHILE she was riding her bike.

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