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Past Simple: Affirmative, Negative, Interrogative

This document provides information about using the past simple tense in English. It discusses forming the positive, negative, and interrogative forms of the past simple for regular and irregular verbs. It also covers using time expressions, the auxiliary verbs "was/were" and "could/couldn't" in the past tense. Key points include doubling consonants or adding "-ed" for regular past forms, common irregular verbs, using "didn't" for negatives, and question structures using "did" and the base verb form.

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Past Simple: Affirmative, Negative, Interrogative

This document provides information about using the past simple tense in English. It discusses forming the positive, negative, and interrogative forms of the past simple for regular and irregular verbs. It also covers using time expressions, the auxiliary verbs "was/were" and "could/couldn't" in the past tense. Key points include doubling consonants or adding "-ed" for regular past forms, common irregular verbs, using "didn't" for negatives, and question structures using "did" and the base verb form.

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Grammar reference

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El past simple: afirmativa, • a les respostes breus no repetim el verb


negativa i interrogativa Did you find the book?
Vas trobar el llibre?
afirmativa Yes, I did. / No, I didn’t. ✓ Sí./No.
I / you arrived. Yes, I found. / No, I didn’t find. ✗
He / She / It arrived. • amb el past simple fem servir expressions
We / You / They arrived. temporals de passat
• normalment, van al final de l’oració
• utilitzem el past simple per descriure accions o I was at home last week.
situacions del passat La setmana pasada vaig estar a casa.
I studied hard yesterday. She performed at the festival three days ago.
Ahir vaig estudiar molt. Va actuar al festival fa tres dies.
• és igual per a tots els pronoms subjecte
• els verbs regulars acaben en -ed was / were
dance ➜ danced finish ➜ finished
• was i were són les formes de passat del verb be
• els verbs d’una síl·laba que acaben en vocal +
• was s’usa amb I / he / she / it i were amb you / we
consonant (excepte w, x o y), doblen la consonant
/ they
final i hi afegeixen -ed
I was at school yesterday. You were at home.
stop ➜ stopped
Ahir vaig estar a l’institut. Tu eres a casa.
• els verbs amb accent a la segona síl·laba i acabats
• per formar la negativa utilitzem not (was not /
en vocal + consonant, doblen la consonant final
wasn’t o were not / weren’t)
abans d’afegir-hi -ed
She was not (wasn’t) happy.
permit ➜ permitted
(Ella) no estava contenta.
• molts verbs són irregulars i no segueixen aquestes
• en interrogativa, posem was / were davant del
regles (vegeu la llista de les pàgines 158–160)
subjecte i a les respostes breus fem servir was /
come ➜ came go ➜ went
wasn’t o were / weren’t
negativa forma contreta Were they at the film festival yesterday?
I / You did not enjoy the film. didn’t enjoy the film. Ahir eren al festival de cinema?
Yes, they were. / No, they weren’t.
He / She / It did not enjoy didn’t enjoy the film.
Sí./No.
the film.
We / You / They did not enjoy didn’t enjoy the film.
the film. could / couldn’t
• could expressa habilitat i possibilitat en passat
• la negativa es forma posant didn’t (did not) davant
He could swim when he was three years old.
del verb en infinitiu
Ell sabia nedar quan tenia tres anys.
Cervantes didn’t write The Hunger Games.
Cervantes no va escriure Els jocs de la fam. • és igual per a tots els pronoms subjecte
I could speak French when I was young.
preguntes i respostes breus Jo sabia parlar francès quan era petit.
Did I / you explore? They could speak French when they were young.
Yes, I / you did. No, I / you didn’t. Ells sabien parlar francès quan eren petits.
Did he / she / it explore? • la negativa es forma amb couldn’t (could not)
Yes, he / she / it did. No, he / she / it didn’t. They couldn’t drive.
Did we / you / they explore? No sabien/No podien conduir.
Yes, we / you / they did. No, we / you / they didn’t. • darrere de could / couldn’t mai hi posem to
We could use a computer. ✓
• per preguntar, usem did, el subjecte i l’infinitiu
Sabíem/Podíem/Vam poder usar un ordinador.
Did you find the website? ✓ Vas trobar el web?
We could to use a computer. ✗
Did you found the website? ✗

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