sexta-feira, 25 de março de 2011

Simple past

The simple past verbs are used to indicate an action completed fully in the past or a habitual occurrence of actions in the past.
The helper used for negative and interrogative sentences is did.
Prayers in the simple past are usually accompanied by adverbs or adverbial phrases indicating time spent, as yesterday, last + adverb of time (last night, last month, last year) and expressions consist of + adverb of time ago (a year ago, a few hours ago, a month ago.) It can also appear after a few adverbs that function as indicators of the SIMPLE PRESENT (always, never, on weekends), but to indicate a normal occurrence in the past.
The simple past is also used after the expressions as if and as though the verb to wish. In these cases, if the past tense is to be, all persons should be used as Were (including 1. Nd and 3. Person singular).
Its structure is as follows:
• To claim: SUBJECT + verb infinitive (without "to") + ED
Examples: (To Love)
I loved He / She / It loved
You loved
We loved
You (plural) loved
They loved

• For denial: AUXILIARY + SUBJECT + VERB + NOT INFINITIVE (without "to")
Example: (To Love)
I did not love
He / She / It didi not love
You did love We did love You (plural) did love
They love didi
- Can we did not substitute for its contracted form, did not.
• To question: AUXILIARY + SUBJECT + verb infinitive (without "to")
Examples: (To Love)
Did I love?
Did you love?
Did he / she / it love?
Did we love?
Did you (plural) love?
Did They Love?
Other examples:
I Learned Inglês. (I learned English).
A few years ago the internet didn't exist. (Some years ago the Internet did not exist).
Did you love your ex-boyfriend? (Did you love your ex-boyfriend?)
We studied by ourselves. (We studied by ourselves).
Did you called to your mother? (Have you called your mother?).
They did read the book? (They read the book?)
He went to my house yesterday. (He went to my house yesterday).
We always visited Our grandmother. (We always visited our grandmother).
I wish you played soccer with us. (I wish you had played football with us.)
Exceptions:
• In verbs ending in y preceded by a consonant, change y to ied by. Example: (to study) He Studied (He studied);
• In verbs that end in already, and only adds to d. Ex: (to dance) I danced;
· Verbs have only one syllable and ends in a vowel + consonant, double the last letter before adding ed. Ex: (to stop) They stopped (They stopped);
· Verbs that have more than one syllable, ending in a vowel + consonant and the last is the tonic syllable, double the last letter before adding ed. Ex: (to permit) We permitted (We have allowed);

• There are also irregular verbs that:
a) does not change shape (ATTENTION! The context here is essential to indicate whether the verb is simple present or simple past)

       (guilherme)

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