Simple Past
(Passado Simples)
Passado dos verbos regulares - tem a terminação ED no Simple Past e Past Participle.
Ex.:
to remember – remerembered / to cry – cried / to play – played / to stop
– stopped / to live – lived / to prefer – preferred / to listen –
listened
Passado dos verbos irregulares - apresentam formas variadas no Simple Past e Past Participle.
Ex.:
to begin – began – begun / to come – came – come / to eat – ate – eate /
to go – went – gone / to see – saw – seen / to take – took - teken / to
write – wrote - written
O Simple Past é usado para expressar ações completamente terminadas no passado.
Obs.: No Simple Past a forma do verbo é a mesma para todas as pessoas.
Interrogative and negative form
Usa-se o auxiliar Did - para todas as pessoas.
Ex.:
I didn’t go fishing yesterday
He didn't study English at school.
Did they love their children ?
Did she write a long love letter last ?
Past Continuous
(Passado Contínuo)
Formação:
Simple Past do verbo to be + ing formdo verbo principal.
Exs.:
My mother was sleping when I got home.
The girls were walking downtown when I met them.
O Past Continuous é usado para indicar urna atividade ou situação que estava se desenvolvendo no momento em que uma outra ação a interrompeu.
Exs.:
I was watching TV while my wife was preparing dinner.
O Past Continuoustambém é usado para mostrar duas ações que estavam acontecendo simultaneamente, no passado.
