Pasado de "To be", there was/there were y pasado continuo

Retomamos los apuntes de inglés con la gramática del tema 2. 

En este enlace están los apuntes completos con actividades: 

apuntes con actividades

1.                  Grammar

1.1.            Past to be

Afirmativa          Negativa               Negativa Contraída                Interrogativa

I was                   I was not                   I wasn’t                                Was I …?

You were            You were not             You weren’t                           Were you …?

He was                He was not                He wasn’t                             Was he …?

She was              She was not               She wasn’t                            Was she …?

It was                  It was not                  It wasn’t                               Was it …?

We were              We were not              We weren’t                            Were we …?

You were             You were not             You weren’t                           Were you …?

They were           They were not            They weren’t                         Were they …?

Recordamos el uso del verbo to be:

- Equivale a ser o estar.

- Es un verbo auxiliar, por lo tanto se niega solo; es decir, no necesita un verbo 
auxiliar. Ej.: isn’t.

- En castellano, se traduce por tener cuando se habla de años, hambre, sed. 
Ej.: I was hungry.

- Se usa para hacer oraciones copulativas en pasado. Ej.: My grandfather was 
Portuguese.

- Para decir nací, se usa de manera fija I was born.

1.1.            There was, there were

Afirmativa      Negativa        Interrogativa             Respuesta corta

There was      There wasn’t     Was there …?       Yes, there was./ No, there wasn’t.

There were     There weren’t    Were there …?      Yes, there were./ No, there weren’t.

- Son las formas en pasado de there is y there are, por lo tanto significa “hubo” y “había”.

- Usamos there was para singular y there were para plural. Ej.: There was a school in 
my village. 
There wasn’t any swimming-pool.

- There were some farmers. There weren’t any shops.

1.3. Past continuous

- Se forma con el pasado del verbo to be (was, were) y el verbo en -ing.

- Usamos el pasado continuo para actividades y acciones del pasado. Ej.: I was studying 
yesterday.

- Cualquier oración en pasado llevará expresiones de tiempo como yesterday, last 
week/month/year, in 1972, at + hora, on + día semana, two years ago (hace dos años), 
while (mientras).

What were you doing yesterday at four o´clock?

(Para preguntar qué estábamos haciendo).

I was studying in the library.

(Para decir qué estábamos haciendo)