PAST

There are four past tenses in English. Use them to talk about things that started and ended in the
past or things that started in the past and continue to the present.

 Simple Past for actions starting and ending in the past.

 Past Continuous for actions starting in the past and continuing to the present.

 Past Perfect for actions that started and ended in the past before another action that is
also in the past.

 Past Perfect Continuous for actions that were going on in the past up until another action
in the past happened.

Past simple
Grammatical Rules (Reglas gramaticales)

Para formar el pasado simple con verbos regulares, usamos el infinitivo y añadimos la terminación
“-ed”. La forma es la misma para todas las personas (I, you, he, she, it, we, they).

Ejemplos:
want → wanted
learn → learned
stay → stayed
walk → walked
show → showed
Excepciones:

1. Para verbos que terminan en una “e”, sólo añadimos “-d”.

Ejemplos:
change → changed
believe → believed

2. Si el verbo termina en una vocal corta y una consonante (excepto “y” o “w”), doblamos la
consonante final.

Ejemplos:
stop → stopped
 commit → committed

3. Con verbos que terminan en una consonante y una “y”, se cambia la “y” por una “i”.

Ejemplos:
study → studied
try → tried
Past continuous
 PAST PERFECT
El "past perfect" hace referencia a un tiempo anterior al pasado reciente. Se emplea para señalar
que un evento ocurrió antes que otro en el pasado. No importa cuál de los eventos se mencione
primero, porque el tiempo verbal deja claro el orden temporal en que acontecieron.
 Past perfect continuous

El "past perfect continuous" se corresponde con el "present perfect continuous"

pero se refiere a un tiempo anterior al pasado reciente. Como ocurre con el
"present perfect continuous", nos interesa más el proceso que el resultado.

EJEMPLOS
 Had you been waiting long before the taxi arrived?
 We had been trying to open the door for five minutes when Jane found her
key.
 It had been raining hard for several hours and the streets were very wet.
 Her friends had been thinking of calling the police when she walked in.
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