The document discusses the simple past tense in English. It provides examples of regular and irregular verbs in the past tense, such as "cleaned", "broke", "was", and "were". It also covers the basic rules for forming the past tense of regular verbs by adding "-ed" or changing the letter before adding "-ed". Additionally, it describes the structure of sentences in the simple past tense, including affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms.

1. Simple Past Tense
El Pasado Simple es un tiempo verbal que se utiliza para describir
acciones que han sucedido en un tiempo anterior y que ya han
finalizado, por ejemplo:
● She cleaned her house. (Ella limpió su casa.)
● I broke the window. (Yo rompí la ventana.)

2. When be is the main verb in the sentence,
we use was or were in the past.
I was
you were
he/she/it was
we were
they were

3. When be is the main verb,
we use wasn't and weren't to make the sentence
negative.
I wasn't
you weren't
he/she/it wasn't
we weren't
they weren't

4. When be is the main verb, we use was and were to
make questions.
Was I?
Were you?
Was he?/ Was she? Was it?
Were we?
Were they?

5. Last weekend, I ___ at my grandmother's house.
She ___ very happy to see me.
I ___ happy to see her.
My cousins ___ there, too.
We ___ together all weekend.
It ___ a nice weekend.

6. Last weekend, I was at my grandmother's house.
She was very happy to see me.
I was happy to see her.
My cousins were there, too.
We were together all weekend.
It was a nice weekend.

7. Los verbos regulares tienen que seguir reglas específicas:
1. se agrega ED a la mayoría de los verbos regulares.
2. los verbos regulares que terminan en consonante más y
reemplazan esta última letra por IED
For example:
- he playED football
- she crIED much
Verbos regulares

9. * Para verbos que terminan en una "e", sólo añadimos "-d.
Ejemplos:
-change → -changed
-believe → -believed
*Si el verbo termina en una vocal corta y una consonante (excepto "y" o "w"),
doblamos la consonante final.
Ejemplos:
-stop →- stopped
- commit →- committed

10. *Con verbos que terminan en una consonante y una "y", se cambia la "y" por una "i".
Ejemplos:
study →- studied
try -→ tried
*Nota: Hay muchos verbos irregulares en inglés. Desafortunadamente, no hay una norma establecida
para formarlos. A continuación tienes los tres verbos irregulares más comunes y los que actúan como
verbos auxiliares.
Verb Past Simple
be was (I, he, she, it) / were (you, we, they)
do did
have had

14. Structure
Affirmative Form:
Subject + Verb in past + Complement
Ejemplos:
-She was a doctor. (Ella era doctora.)
-The keys were in the drawer. (Las llaves estaban en el cajón.)
-I wanted to dance. (Quería bailar.)
-He learned English. (Aprendieron inglés.)

15. Negative Form
[Subject] + did + not / didn't + [ root form of the verb] + Complement
For examples:
-I didn't go to class yesterday. (No fui a clase ayer)
-I didn't wake up early this morning. (No me desperté temprano esta mañana)
-She wasn't a doctor. (Ella no era doctora.)
-The keys weren't in the drawer. (Las llaves no estaban en el cajón.)

16. Interrogative Form
WH - Questions:
Question Word + Did + Subject + Simple form of the Verb + Complement + ?
For examples:
★ Where did you go on holiday last year?
-I went to Cartagena
★ What did you do there?
-I walked on the beach and I swam in the sea.