LS Positive/Negative forms was | I/He/She/It | | | wasnot/wasn’t 2 i | listening to music. | were | You/We/They | = | | were not/weren’t | Question forms | Was | fhe/she/it | tistening to | Were | you/we/they music? Short answers ; was. | Yes, | he/she/it | : | we/they | were, | I wasn’t. | No, he/she/it | * | we/they | weren't. an on-going past action IH | was eating grapes an interrupted on-going past action (2nd vert is in the past simple) Ay}. | was eating grapes when she arrived parallel actions | was writing while she was dictating —_— > (both verbs in the past continuous)CAN and COULD can’t couldn’t No, | I | you you you Can he he can. he can’t. Could | she drive? she could. | she couldn't. it it it we we we they they they We use can/can’t to talk about present abilities. We use could/couldn’t to talk about past abilities. Tcan play the piano. My sister could talk before she could walk. Ican’t play the guitar. Icouldn’t sleep last night. Can you speak French? Could you hear what I said? Yes, Ican./No, Ican’t. Yes, I could. / No, Icouldn’t. The infinitive without to follows can/can’t and could/couldn’t. The forms of can, can’t, could, couldn’t do not change. Ican (not cans) cook.