The Simple Past (Form) To be AFFERMATIVA I was You were He was She was It was We were You were They were In summer 1990 NEGATIVA I wasn’t You weren’t He wasn’t She wasn’t It wasn’t We weren’t You weren’t They weren’t I was in Brazil. INTERROGATIVA RISPOSTE BREVI Was I? Were you? Yes, + sogg. + was/were Was he? Was she? No, + sogg. + wasn’t/weren’t Was it? Were we? Were you? Were they? We were very happy to see you yesterday. Verbi regolari AFFERMATIVA I loved You loved He loved She loved It loved We loved You loved They loved NEGATIVA I didn’t love You didn’t love He didn’t love She didn’t love It didn’t love We didn’t love You didn’t love They didn’t love INTERROGATIVA Did Did Did Did Did Did Did Did I love? you love? he love? she love? it love? we love? you love? they love? RISPOSTE BREVI Yes, + sogg. + did No, + sogg. + didn’t Verbi irregolari INTERROGATIVA RISPOSTE BREVI AFFERMATIVA* NEGATIVA I wrote I didn’t write Did I write? You wrote You didn’t write Did you write? He wrote He didn’t write Did he write? Yes, + sogg. + did She wrote She didn’t write Did she write? It wrote It didn’t write Did it write? No, + sogg. + didn’t We wrote We didn’t write Did we write? You wrote You didn’t write Did you write? They wrote They didn’t write Did they write? *OGNI VERBO IRREGOLARE HA UNA FORMA DIVERSA DAGLI ALTRI To go – went to give - gave to see – saw Regole ortografiche (verbi regolari) I verbi terminanti in –E aggiungono solo –D: like – liked hope – hoped I verbi terminanti in consonante+Y trasformano la Y in I e aggiungono –ED: try – tried reply – replied I verbi monosillabici terminanti in una sola consonante preceduta da una sola vocale raddoppiano la consonante finale: stop – stopped plan – planned I verbi bisillabici con l’accento sull’ultima sillaba, raddoppiano la consonante finale: preFER – preferred reGRET - regretted The Simple Past IN ITALIANO SI TRADUCE CON IL PASSATO REMOTO, IL PASSATO PROSSIMO E L’IMPERFETTO. Use Si usa per parlare di azioni o eventi avvenuti in un punto o un periodo preciso del passato. Si tratta di azioni iniziate e terminate nel passato che non hanno più nessun legame col presente. Pertanto, (a differenza del Present Perfect) si usa con espressioni di tempo che indicano un punto o un periodo preciso nel passato come: yesterday in 1990 ago last night/week/month/etc. then when I saw that film last week. I left school in 1990. Si usa per parlare di azioni consecutive, che si sono susseguite una dopo l’altra (soprattutto nelle storie): He parked his car, went into the station and bought a ticket.