Present Simple

Affirmative: SUBJECT+VERB+COMPLEMENT
You play with your cousin.

Negative: SUBJECT+DON´T/DOESN´T+VERB+COMPLEMENT
You don´t play with your cousin.
Interrogative: DO/DOES+SUBJECT+VERB+COMPLEMENT
Do you play with your cousin?

Past Simple
Affirmative: SUBJECT+VERB IN THE PAST+ COMPLEMENT
You played with your cousin.
Negative: SUBJECT+DIDN´T+VERB INFINITIVE+COMPLEMENTS
You didn´t pay with your cousin.
Interrogative: DID*SUBJECT+VERB PRESENT+ COMPLEMENTS

Did you play with your cousin?

Present Continuous
Affirmative: SUBJECT+AM/IS/ARE+VERB -ING
I am working.
Negative: SUB.+AM NOT/ISN´T/AREN´T+VERB -ING
I am not working

Interrogative: AM/IS/ARE+SUB.+VERB -ING

Am I working?

Past Continuous
A: SUB.+WAS/WERE+VERB -ING

She was dancing.

N: SUB.+WASN´T/WEREN´T+VERB -ING

She wasn´t dancing

I: WAS/WERE+SUB.+VERB -ING

Was she playing?

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 Past Perfect Simple
A: SUB.+HAD+PAST PARTICIPLE

She had been playing

N: SUB.+HADN´T+PAST PARTICIPLE

She hadn´t been playing

I: HAD+SUB.+PAST PARTICIPLE

Had she been playing?

Present Perfect Simple

A: SUB.+HAVE/HAS+PAST PARTICIPLE

He has forgotten his papers

N: SUB.+HAVEN´T/HASN´T+PAST PARTICIPLE

He hasn´t forgotten his papers

I: HAVE/HAS+SUB.+PAST PARTICIPLE

Has he forgotten his papers?

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 Reported Speech
• Se usan los verbos ``say´´ o ``tell´´´y la conjunción ``that´´.

Cambios
• Present Simple a Past Simple
• Present Continuous a Past Continuous
• Past Simple a Past Perfect Simple
• Present Perfect Simple a Past Perfect Simple
• Will a would
• Can a could
• Must a had to
• Now a then
• Today, tonight a that day, that night
• Tomorrow a the next day
• Yesterday a the previous day
• Last night a the previous night
• Next week a the following week
• Last year a the year before
• Here a there
• This/these a that/those
• My a his/her …

Questions
• Las YES/NO QUESTIONS son las que se pueden responder con si o no. Para
pasarlas a estilo indirecto se emplea el verbo ask en pasado (asked) seguido de
if o whether y a continuación el sujetos y el verbo.
• Las WH- QUESTIONS no se pueden contestar con si o no. Son las que comienzan
por una partícula interrogativa (what, who, where…). Al pasarlas al estilo
indirecto se pone ask en pasado (asked) seguido de dicha partícula (what, who,
where…). Luego van el sujeto y el verbo.