THE PAST SIMPLE TENSE

-Se foloseste pentru actiuni care s-au intamplat in trecut

-Este timpul naratiunii, spre deosebire de PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE, care este timpul descrierii

e.g.: “The sun was shining in the sky and a light wind was blowing. (descriere – Past Continuous).
Suddenly, a noise broke the silence as a boy ran into the garden and cried: …”(naratiune -Past Simple)

-corespunde Perfectului Compus din limba romana, dar sunt situatii cand poate fi tradus cu Imperfect
sau cu Perfect Simplu:

e.g. He greeted us when he entered the room. = Ne-a salutat cand a intrat in camera.

He was there, but he had no comment to make = Era acolo, dar nu avea niciun comentariu de
facut.

“Fine”, he said and stood up. = “Bine”, spuse el si se ridică.

-Adverbe: yesterday (=ieri), last week (saptamana trecuta), last month (luna trecuta), last October, last
Wednesday etc; a year ago (acum un an/ in urma cu un an), two minutes ago, a century ago (acum un
secol), some time ago (acum ceva timp) etc.

-Forma: afirmativ: S+V-ed/ V2

Interogativ: DID+ S +V1?

Negative: S+ DID NOT +V1

Interogativ-negativ: DIDN’T + S + V1?

Obs.: Majoritatea verbelor formeaza Trecutul Simplu afirmativ si Participiul Trecut adaugand terminatia
-ED la forma de Infinitiv a verbului. Aceste verbe se numesc REGULAR VERBS (verbe regulate).

O serie de verbe nu respecta aceasta regula (IRREGULAR VERBS -verbe neregulate). Ele formeaza
trecutul si participiul in mod imprevizibil, de aceea trebuie memorate din liste speciale, cu trei coloane, (
V1, V2 si V3), unde: coloana 1 (V1) =infinitive

V2= Trecut Simplu afirmativ

V3= Participiu Trecut

-Terminatia -ED se pronunta [d] sau [t]. La verbele deja terminate cu d/t, -ED se pronunta [id].

e.g.: play – played [pronuntat PLEID]

ask – asked [askt]

start – started [startid] want – wanted [uantid]

-Reguli de ortografie pentru terminatia -ED:

1. daca verbul se termina cu E, adaugam doar D: love – loved

2. daca verbul se termina in consoana+y, Y devine I, +-ed: try – tried

3. daca verbul se termina in vocala scurta si accentuata+ consoana, dublam acea consoana: fit – fitted

4. daca verbul se termina cu -IC, adaugam K+ed: panic – panicked

Verbe speciale:

-TO BE, care: - are doua forme la trecut, WAS (pers.1 si 3 sg.) si WERE (celelalte pers.)

-nu se poate folosi cu auxiliarul DID la formele interrogative si negative, ca

restul verbelor

e.g. I was – Was I? – I was not/I wasn’t – Wasn’t I?

You were – were you? – you were not/ you weren’t – weren’t you?

Etc.

-TO HAVE (GOT) , care: -folosit fara particular GOT, se comporta ca orice alt verb:

I had – Did I have? – I didn’t have – Didn’t I have?

- Folosit cu GOT, se conjuga astfel:

I had got/I’d got – Had I got? – I hadn’t got – Hadn’t I got?