Unid 3

PAST SIMPLE V, PAST CONTINUO WHIT WHEN/ WHILE

	PAST    SIMPLE	PAST   CONTINUO
AFIRMATIVA	Sujeto + verbo (-ed o irregular) + complementos I visited the cathedral yesterday. (Visité la catedral ayer.)	Sujeto + was/were + verbo –ing + complementos She was playing in the street. (Jugaba en la calle.)
NEGATIVA	Sujeto + didn’t (=did not) + verbo + complementos I didn’t visit the cathedral yesterday. (No visité la catedral ayer.)	Sujeto + was/were + not + verbo -ing + complementos She wasn’t opening the door. (No estaba abriendo la puerta.)
INTERROGATIVA	(Partícula interrogatia) + did + sujeto + verbo + complementos + ? When did you visit the cathedral? (¿cuándo visitaste la catedral?)	(Partícula interrogativa) + was/were + sujeto + verbo -ing + complementos + ? Why was Peter driving my car? (¿Por qué conducía Peter mi coche?)
	After when in a past continuous sentence to introduce a second action. I was talking on the phone when you arrieved home.( Que estaba hablando por teléfono cuando arrieved inicio.)	After while to describe two actions that were happening at the same time. I was talking on the phone when/while you were cooking.( Que estaba hablando por teléfono cuando / mientras estaban cocinando.)

THERE WAS/ THERE WERE

AFIRMATIVA

·         We use there was/ there were to describe scenes in the past.

Affirmative

There was + a/an + singular countable noun There was + some + uncountable noun

There were + some + plural countable noun

There was a very tall man at the door.

There was some water on the floor.

There were four hotels in the square.

·         Expressions of time or place go after the noun phrase.

There was some milk in the fridge.

NOT there was in the fridge some milk.

NEGATIVA

·         In the negative, we generally use the contracted from there wasn’t for singular countable nouns and uncountable nouns. We use there weren’t for plural countable nouns.

·         In the negative, we don’t use some. We use any to express lack of something.

There wasn’t any bread in the shop.

There weren’t any internet cafés in those days.

INTERROGATIVA

·         In questions, was/ were appear at the beginning of the question.

Was there a big queue at the ticket office?

·         We use any instead of some.

Were there any Italians on the coach?

RESPUESTAS   CORTAS

Affirmative	Negative
Yes, there was Yes, there were	No, there wasn’t No, there weren’t

ADVERBS

Most adjetives	Slow Nervous Beautiful	+ -ly	Slowly Nervously Beautifully
Adjectives ending –ble	Comfortable	Change –e to -y	Comfortably
Adjectives ending -y	Happy Angry	Change –y to -ily	Happily Angrily
Irregular adjetives	Good Fast Hard	Irregular	Well Fast Hard

·         We use adverbs to describe the way something happens. They generally go after the main verb.

“What are you doing?” he shouted angrily.