Past Simple and Past Continuous Tense - English Grammar Lesson | Learn English With Michelle
Summary
TLDREn este video, Michelle explica la diferencia entre el pasado simple y el pasado continuo. Utiliza ejemplos prácticos para demostrar cómo el pasado simple se usa para acciones completadas, mientras que el pasado continuo describe acciones que estaban en progreso en un momento específico del pasado. Además, aclara cómo se conjugan los verbos en ambos tiempos y cuándo es adecuado usar cada uno, resaltando verbos que solo se usan en pasado simple, como 'want' y 'know'. Con una serie de oraciones, guía al espectador a través de las reglas gramaticales de manera clara y accesible.
Takeaways
- 😃 Las dos oraciones iniciales están en pasado, pero una usa el pasado continuo y la otra el pasado simple.
- 📝 En el pasado simple, el verbo principal tiene la forma con 'ed', mientras que en el pasado continuo el verbo termina en 'ing'.
- 🎾 Ejemplo: 'Ayer, Carin y Jim jugaron al tenis' está en pasado simple, pero 'A las 10:30, estaban jugando al tenis' está en pasado continuo.
- ⏳ El pasado continuo se utiliza para describir una acción en curso en un momento específico en el pasado.
- 👀 Ejemplo: 'Saludé a Helen, pero no estaba mirando' combina pasado simple y continuo para describir acciones que ocurren simultáneamente.
- 🧑🤝🧑 La conjugación 'was' se usa con 'he/she/it', y 'were' con 'we/you/they'.
- 📞 En 'Matt llamó mientras cenábamos', el pasado continuo describe la acción en curso (cenar) interrumpida por una acción puntual (llamó).
- 🚶♂️ En 'Caminaba por la calle cuando vi a David', se utiliza el pasado continuo para la acción de caminar y el pasado simple para la acción de ver.
- ❌ Algunas palabras como 'want' y 'know' no se utilizan en pasado continuo, siempre se usan en pasado simple.
- 🎉 Ejemplo final: 'Disfrutaba de la fiesta, pero Chris quería irse', muestra que 'querer' se usa en pasado simple y no en pasado continuo.
Q & A
¿Cuál es la principal diferencia entre las dos oraciones iniciales mencionadas en el video?
-La diferencia es que una está en pasado continuo y la otra en pasado simple. Aunque ambas hablan de acciones en el pasado, una describe una acción en progreso y la otra una acción finalizada.
¿Cómo se forma el pasado simple en inglés?
-El pasado simple se forma agregando ‘ed’ al verbo principal en oraciones afirmativas, como en ‘played’ (jugó).
¿Cómo se forma el pasado continuo en inglés?
-El pasado continuo se forma con el verbo ‘to be’ en pasado (was/were) seguido del verbo principal con ‘ing’, como en ‘they were playing’ (ellos estaban jugando).
¿Qué acción se describe con el pasado continuo en la frase ‘they were playing tennis at 10:30 a.m.’?
-La acción de jugar tenis estaba en progreso a las 10:30 a.m., por lo que se usa el pasado continuo para expresar que estaba ocurriendo en ese momento.
¿Por qué se usa el pasado simple en la oración ‘I waved to Helen’?
-Se usa el pasado simple porque describe una acción única y completa en el pasado: ‘I waved’ (saludé).
¿Cómo se usa el pasado continuo y el pasado simple juntos en una oración?
-Se usan juntos cuando una acción en progreso es interrumpida por otra acción. Por ejemplo, ‘Matt phoned while we were having dinner’ describe una acción continua (cenar) interrumpida por otra (llamar).
¿Cuál es la diferencia entre ‘was’ y ‘were’ en pasado continuo?
-‘Was’ se usa con los pronombres he/she/it (tercera persona singular) y ‘were’ con I/we/you/they (primera y segunda persona y plural).
¿Por qué en la oración ‘Chris wanted to go home’ no se usa el pasado continuo con el verbo ‘want’?
-No se usa el pasado continuo con ‘want’ porque es un verbo que generalmente no se usa en tiempos continuos, ya que describe estados en lugar de acciones.
¿Es correcto decir ‘I was knowing her for five years’?
-No, es incorrecto. El verbo ‘know’ no se usa en tiempos continuos. La forma correcta sería ‘I knew her for five years’.
¿Cuándo se usa el pasado simple para describir acciones consecutivas en el pasado?
-El pasado simple se usa cuando las acciones en el pasado ocurren una después de la otra, como en ‘I was walking along the road when I saw Dave. So I stopped, and we had a chat.’
Outlines
🤔 Diferencia entre el pasado continuo y el pasado simple
El video comienza presentando dos frases en pasado, una en pasado continuo y otra en pasado simple, explicando que, aunque ambas hablan del pasado, el uso del verbo con 'ing' indica una acción en curso, mientras que el verbo con 'ed' señala una acción finalizada. Se introduce la lección sobre cómo distinguir estas dos formas del pasado, usando ejemplos como 'ayer Carin y Jim jugaron tenis', que está en pasado simple porque el verbo tiene 'ed'. Sin embargo, si se habla de una acción en curso, como lo que estaban haciendo a las 10:30 a.m., se usa el pasado continuo con 'ing'.
🎾 Acciones simultáneas y el uso del pasado continuo
Se explica cómo el pasado continuo se usa para hablar de una acción en curso, mientras que el pasado simple describe un evento que ocurre en medio de esa acción. El ejemplo de 'Matt llamó mientras cenábamos' ilustra cómo una acción continua ('cenábamos') es interrumpida por una acción puntual ('Matt llamó'). Además, se refuerza la importancia de usar 'was' o 'were' correctamente según el sujeto, como en 'I was studying' frente a 'they were studying'. También se menciona cómo narrar secuencias de acciones en pasado simple, como 'I stopped and we had a chat'.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Pasado continuo
💡Pasado simple
💡Acción en progreso
💡Acción puntual
💡Línea de tiempo
💡Tercer persona singular
💡Interrupción de acciones
💡Verbos estáticos
💡Acciones secuenciales
💡Pronombres personales
Highlights
Introduction to the differences between past continuous and past simple tenses.
Example 1: 'Yesterday Carin and Jim played tennis' is past simple because the verb 'played' uses 'ed'.
Clarification: Adding 'ing' to the verb would change it to past continuous tense.
Explaining that 'they were playing tennis at 10:30 a.m.' is past continuous, describing an action in the middle of the past.
Visual timeline explanation for past continuous: showing actions that started, continued, and ended in the past.
Sentence breakdown: 'I waved to Helen, but she wasn't looking' - past simple for 'waved' and past continuous for 'wasn't looking'.
Explanation of the difference between 'was' and 'were' for singular and plural subjects.
'Matt phoned while we were having dinner' - example of using past simple for a single action interrupting a continuous action.
Explanation of using past simple and past continuous together in one sentence.
'I was walking along the road when I saw Dave. So I stopped, we had a chat.' Example of multiple past simple actions following each other.
Demonstrating that when actions follow each other in the past, past simple is used.
Past continuous vs. past simple: 'I was enjoying the party, but Chris wanted to go home' - example of when to use past simple with verbs like 'want'.
Explanation of why 'wanted' is correct instead of 'was wanting' because 'want' is used in past simple.
The verb 'want' and 'know' are never used in past continuous tense, only past simple.
Conclusion: Recap of the lesson about the difference between past simple and past continuous tenses.
Transcripts
Hi guys, welcome to the lesson, You know what, ‘I was eating biscuit before I started this
lesson’ and ‘in the morning I ate breakfast’, what's the difference between these two sentences,
do we have the same tenses? No, these two sentences talk about the past, but one is
past continuous and the other is past simple. Don't get too confused, just stay with me
in this lesson to solve the puzzle of “past continuous” and “past simple”. So guys
here we have with us certain sentences that will help you understand how to talk about
past tense using these tenses. So let's look at the first sentence, “yesterday Carin
and Jim played tennis”, do you think it's past continuous or past simple? Well, because
the main verb in the sentence has an “ed”, that's why this is past simple. But what if
this verb had “ing”, then it would be past continuous. But in this case it is past
simple. Right, so if I ask you what time were they playing tennis? Let's say, they were
playing tennis from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., so we'd say they played tennis yesterday from
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. But if I ask you what were they doing at 10:30? Here, what
were they doing at 10:30 a.m.? You'd say they were playing tennis at 10:30 a.m. But why
would we say, ‘they were playing’ instead of saying, ‘they play tennis’ at 10:30
a.m. That's because we are talking about an action that was going on in the past. We are
talking about, we’re in the middle of an action that was going on in the past. So this
is in middle of an action. Middle of an action in the past. So this is where the action started
and this is where the action finished. Let's try to draw a timeline for this, alright,
so this is now, this is future and here we have the past. This is one moment in the past
and this is another moment in the past. But when something happens in the middle of an
action, before it started and until it finished, that is where we use the “past continuous
tense”. So Jim and Carin were playing tennis at 10:30, as you can see here, this is past
continuous tense because we have the “ing”. Now let's look at the next sentence that we
have, “I waved to Helen”, okay, so ‘waved’ is past simple because we have the “ed”
form of the verb, okay we are talking about one action in the past, “I waved to Helen,
but she wasn't looking”, so this means that we are talking about something that is happening,
she wasn't looking all this while, we are talking about the middle of that action. So
this is past continuous. Did you notice something peculiar? The difference between this sentence
and this sentence, here we say, “they were playing tennis”, but here we say, “she
wasn't looking” why do we use this ‘was’ and ‘were’? What's the whole confusion
about? Nothing difficult. So we used ‘were’ with, oh, sorry. ‘he/she/it’ – ‘was’,
okay? Third-person singular. ‘I/we/you and they’ – ‘were’, right? That's the
reason we use, ‘wasn't looking’, that's why we used ‘was’ here and ‘were’
with they, okay? Now let's look at the next sentence that we have, “Matt phoned while
we were having dinner”. So there is an action that is going on, which one is that? ‘Having
dinner’, okay? So they were eating dinner and the action was going on, but something
happened in the middle of that action and what happened? ‘Matt phoned’, that means
‘Matt called’… So whenever an action happens, in the middle of something else that's
when we use, past simple and also past continuous together. So if you're studying and one of
your friends calls to you, you could say, “Rachel called while I was studying”,
but be careful, we will say, “I was” and not “I were”, okay? Great. “I was walking
along the road when I saw Dave. So I stopped, we had a chat.” Okay, this is interesting,
we have so many actions here, “I was walking”, okay? - action one and this is past continuous
“along the road when I saw David” - second action, but this is past simple. “So I stopped
and we had a chat” we have two more actions in this. So whenever some actions, follow
the other actions in the past we use, past simple to talk about them. So ‘I was walking
along the road when I saw David’, - one action, ‘then I stopped’ - another action
and then “we had a chat” this is another action and that's why we are using the past
simple and not the past continuous. Now we have the last sentence with us, “I was enjoying
the party, but Chris wanted to go home.” Should we say, ‘he wanted to go home’
or ‘wanting to go home’? What if we say, but ‘Chris was wanting to go home’, will
that be correct? “I was enjoying the party, but Chris was wanting to go home.” No, that's
incorrect. We'd rather say, ‘Chris wanted to go home’ and this is because, we use
the simple past about an action in the past. It's a single action that happened in the
past, not something that was going on and the word ‘want’, is usually used in the
past simple, it's never used in the past continuous and the same applies for the word, ‘know’,
you could say that, “we were good friends, and I knew her for five years”. You wouldn't
say, ‘I was knowing her for five years’, which will be incorrect. So, ‘know’ and
‘want’ are always used in the simple past, like this.
Okay, I hope you learned enough about the simple past and the past continuous and now
the puzzle is solved for you. Please come back for more grammar lessons, this is Michelle
signing off, bye-bye.
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