TO BE SIMPLE PAST

El pasado del verbo to be no tiene formas contractas o reducidas para el afirmativo.
Es decir, no puedes decir I's como reducción de I was o You're en lugar de You were.

En cambio, puedes usar contracciones en el negativo: I WASN'T en reemplazo de I was not y YOU WEREN'T en lugar de You were not.

IMPORTANTE: I WAS significa tanto YO FUI (del verbo SER, no de IR) como YO ERA lo cual suele confundir a muchos estudiantes hispanohablantes.


Observa estos ejemplos:

All his life he WAS a teacher.

Toda su vida él FUE maestro.

<< aquí FUE no deriva del verbo IR (decir: "Toda su vida él ERA maestro" es incorrecto en español).

  My grandfather WAS Italian.

Mi abuelo ERA italiano.

<< aqui queda mejor usar ERA que FUE.


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Pasado simple del verbo 'to be'

Afirmativo

I was

You were

He was

She was

It was

We were

You were

They were

La forma afirmativa del pasado no se puede contraer.

Ejemplos

I was sleepy	Estaba adormilado
She was wrong	Estaba equivocada
We were happy	Éramos felices
They were teachers	Eran profesores

Negativo

Sujeto + was/were + not + ...

Forma larga	Forma corta
I was not	I wasn´t
You were not	You weren´t
He was not	He wasn´t
She was not	She wasn´t
It was not	It wasn´t
We were not	We weren´t
You were not	You weren´t
They were not	They weren´t

La forma negativa se puede contraer.

Ejemplos

I wasn´t married	No estaba casada
It was not windy	No hacía viento
We were not young	No éramos jóvenes
You weren´t our lawyers	No érais nuestros abogados

Interrogativo

Was/Were + Sujeto + ...?

Afirmativo	Negativo
Was I...?	Was I not...?
Were you...?	Were you not...?	Weren´t you...?
Was he...?	Was he not...?	Wasn´t he...?
Was she...?	Was she not...?	Wasn´t she...?
Was it...?	Was it not...?	Wasn´t it...?
Were we...?	Were we not...?	Weren´t we...?
Were you...?	Were you not...?	Weren´t you...?
Were they...?	Were they not...?	Weren´t they...?

Ejemplos

Was I late?	¿Llegaba tarde?
Weren´t you 18 years old?	¿No tenías 18 años?
Why wasn´t she here?	¿Por qué no estaba aquí?
Were they not afraid?	¿No tenían miedo?

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Ejercicios

COPIA LAS SIGUIENTES ORACIONES EN TU LIBRETA Y:

1 Completa las siguientes oraciones con el pasado simple del verbo to be en forma afirmativa.

1 They very happy.

2 I very angry.

3 My friend Tom in New York last summer.

2 Completa las siguientes oraciones con la forma contraída del verbo to be en pasado y en forma negativa.

4 You at school last Monday.

5 He fifteen years old. 

6 Our houses very old.

3 Completa las siguientes oraciones con el pasado del verbo to be en interrogativa afirmativa.

7 she a beatiful girl?

8 Where my car?

4 Completa las siguientes oraciones con la forma contraída del verbo to be en pasado interrogativa.

9 we here last holidays?

10 it a nice present?

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ESTUDIA LA SIGUIENTE CANCIÓN: