“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.
El "past perfect" está compuesto por dos partes:
El pasado del verbo to
have (had) + el "past participle" del verbo
principal.
Evento
a
|
evento b
|
I had saved my
document
|
before the computer crashed |
When they arrived
|
we had already started cooking. |
John had gone out
|
when I arrived in the office |
He was very tired
|
because he hadn't slept well. |
Ejemplos:
I had worked for my uncle
She had finished her homework
We had talked for more than two hours
We had visited them once a week for the last year
He had returned my car at last
It had rained once a week for the last month
They had completed the project
She had finished her homework
We had talked for more than two hours
We had visited them once a week for the last year
He had returned my car at last
It had rained once a week for the last month
They had completed the project
"PAST PROGRESSIVE"
WAS/WERE + -ING FORM
Ejemplos:
He was sleeping all night long.
Were you sleeping all night long?
I wasn't resting, I was working!
"SIMPLE PAST"
El "simple past" se utiliza para hablar de una acción que concluyó en un tiempo anterior al actual. La duración no es relevante. El tiempo en que se sitúa la acción puede ser el pasado reciente o un pasado lejano.
SUJETO + DID + BASE FORM
Ejemplos:
john Cabot sailed to America in 1498.
My father died last year.
He lived in Fiji in 1976.
We crossed the Channel yesterday.
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