SIMPLE PAST X PAST CONTINUOUS Andressa Ribeiro do Amaral
Ações pontuais acabadas no passado: I broke my leg two days ago. We got married in the summer of 1965. Geralmente, o Simple Past vem acompanhado de um advérbio do passado: yesterday, last night, three months ago, in 1989, the past June... SIMPLE PAST
Forma-se o Simple Past dos verbos regulares acrescentando “ed” na terminação do verbo: start started. Verbos terminados em e: acrescenta-se apenas o d: love loved. Verbos terminados em vogal + y: acrescenta-se o ed: play played. SIMPLE PAST
Verbos terminados em consoante + y: tira-se o y e acrescenta-se ied: study studied. Verbos terminados em CVC: dobra-se a última consoante: plan planned. SIMPLE PAST
Não há regra quanto aos verbos irregulares; cada um apresenta uma irregularidade distinta: Become became Have had Drink drank Understand understood Think thought SIMPLE PAST
No Simple Past, as formas negativa e interrogativa exigem um verbo auxiliar – Did ou Didn’t (did + not): Did you see them? No I didn’t. He didn’t intend to screw things up, but he did. SIMPLE PAST
Ações em andamento durante algum momento no passado: I was doing the dishes when the phone rang. The audience started applauding while he was singing. PAST CONTINUOUS
Forma-se o Past Continuous a partir do verbo to be no passado (simple past) + o verbo principal no gerúndio (-ing): She [to be] [to do] her homework when her mother arrived She was doing her homework when her mother arrived. PAST CONTINUOUS
Para os verbos terminados em “e”, tira-se o “e” e acrescenta-se o “ing”: move moving Para os verbos terminados em cvc, dobra- se a última consoante: plan planning PAST CONTINUOUS
No Past Continuous, o verbo to be funciona como o verbo auxiliar nas sentenças negativas e interrogativas: Were they studying English? Yes, they were. My wife wasn’t expecting him to come, and I wasn’t either. PAST CONTINUOUS