Retomamos los apuntes de inglés con la gramática del tema 2.
En este enlace están los apuntes completos 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)
