The Past Simple tense is used to describe actions that have happened at an earlier time and have already completed, for example: She cleaned her house. She cleaned her house.  I broke the window. I broke the window

1. NORTHEAST SCHOOL OF
AGRICULTURE
Third Fourt- Month
Practice English III
Engineer: Oscar García.
Group Practice: # 4
Student: Méndez García, Jorge Eduardo.
Llano de la Fragua, Zacapa 27 de Agosto del 2014.

2. (Simple Past Tense)
The Past Simple tense is used to describe actions that
have happened at an earlier time and have already
completed, for example:
She cleaned her house. She cleaned her house.
I broke the window. I broke the window.
Here we see their conjugation in the Spanish
equivalent to the Past Indefinite. Note that the
sentence structure is similar to the Simple Present:

3. EXPRESSING A SENTENCE IN THE SIMPLE PAST IS UNDERSTOOD THAT THE ACTION IS
UNRELATED TO THE PRESENT, AS SHOWN IN THE FOLLOWING CASES: I HAVE LOST THE KEYS.
HE LOST THE KEYS.? (PERHAPS IN THIS THE'VE FOUND) .SHE LENT ME A BOOK. SHE LENT ME A
BOOK (MAY ALREADY RETURNED IT) CAN ALSO INDICATE THE TIME THE ACTION TAKES PLACE
TO INDICATE THE TIME MORE ACCURATELY.?.? THEY SAW THE MOVIE LAST NIGHT. THEY SAW
THE FILM LAST NIGHT.? WE WENT TO LONDON YESTERDAY. WE WENT TO LONDON LAST
ORDER TO FORM A SENTENCE IN THE PAST TENSE WE MUST DISTINGUISH TWO TYPES.?.?
REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS VERBS IN THE FIRST CASE FORM THEIR PAST SIMPLE ED
ADDING THE ENDING TO THE INFINITIVE, WHILE IRREGULAR RECEIVE THAT NAME NOT
FOLLOWING A PARTICULAR PATTERN AND IN THIS CASE MUST BE STUDIED INDIVIDUALLY.

4. REGULAR
VERBS
IN THE TABLE BELOW WE OFFER SOME OF THE REGULAR VERBS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
MOST USED IN THE SIMPLE PAST CONJUGATION WHICH AS ALREADY EXPLAINED IS FORMED BY
ADDING THE ENDING TO THE INFINITIVE ED.
ESPAÑOL
INFINITIVO /
PRESENTE
SIMPLE
PASADO
SIMPLE
Responder To answer answered
Preguntar To ask asked
Aprobar To approve approved
Pertenecer To belong belonged
Cepillar To brush brushed
Limpiar To clean cleaned
Trepar To climb climbed
Cocinar To cook cooked

5.  There Is
 Tiene el significado de "haber". Se forma con "there" seguido del presente del verbo "to be" en singular
o plural, según corresponda.
We use the structure "no ...." just to say that something exists (or not exists). The real
subject usually comes after "no ...“
 Use "There is" for singular nouns and things you cannot count.
 Examples Afirmativo:
 There is a river in my town.
 There is a ghost in this room.
 There is an apple on the desk.
 There is ice on the lake.

6. Negative
 La forma negativa de 'there is y 'there are' se forma con el presente negativo del verbo 'to be' (there is
not/are not). Es frecuente encontrar la forma contraída (there isn´t/there aren´t).
 En las oraciones negativas hay que tener en cuenta que se usará 'any' y no 'some'.
Negativo
Singular There isn't a shop No hay una tienda
Plural There aren't any shops No hay tiendas
Singular forma larga There was not a shop No había una tienda
plural forma larga There were not any shops No habían tiendas

7.  Interrogativo
 El interrogativo se forma con el verbo "to be"
(is/are) seguido de "there".
 Estas preguntas suelen responderse con la
forma corta: "Yes, there is/are" o "No, there
isn´t/aren´t".
Interrogativo
singular
Is there a park
there?
Yes, there is ¿Hay un
parque allí?
Sí (si hay)
No, there isn't No (no hay)
plural
Are there any
restaurants?
Yes, there are
¿Hay
restaurantes?
Sí (si hay)
No, there
aren't
No (no hay)

8.  Utilizamos there are cuando el sujeto es:
 • A plural noun:
There are two apples in the basket.
important:
Remember that English irregular nouns do not bear the mark "s" require plural agreement with the
verb to be:
 Example:
There are a lot of people in the street.
There are twenty children in the class.

9.  The Negative:
 The negative form of the existential expressions there is / there are built with the negative
particle not:
 Example:
There is not any apple in the basket.
There are not twenty children in the class.
Notice that to say that there is no or no any quantizer is used.

10.  The Form Interrogative
 The interrogative form is constructed by an inversion of the verb to be and the "false" there
subject:
 Example.
Is there an apple in the basket?
Are there twenty children in the class?

11. Bibliography
 http://www.vitutor.com/gramatica_inglesa/verbs/there_is.html
 http://www.clafoti.com/Imagenes/there_isare.htm
 http://es.slideshare.net/alondrahuarhuachinauto/simple-past-tense-
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 http://www.ejerciciodeingles.com/cuando-usar-there-is-there-are/