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Review of Past Tenses

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PAST SIMPLE 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. EJEMPLOS: John Cabot  sailed  to America in 1498. My father  died  last year. He  lived  in Fiji in 1976. We  crossed  the Channel yesterday. Simple Past Affirmative I cried. Negative I did not cry Interrogative Did I cry? Form Regular verbs: Verb + ed | Irregular verbs: forms differ and should be learned by heart. This is a list of  irregular verbs Uses action in the past taking place once, never or several times actions taking place one after another Ejercicios Escribe los verbos en  past simple . 1.     William  (visit)  ______________ his grandparents last weekend. 2.     Jane

Separable and Non-Separable Phrasal Vers

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A phrasal verb is a verb combined with a preposition or adverb (or both) that means something different from each of the words that make up the verb. There are two types of phrasal verbs. Separable phrasal verbs can be broken up by other words, while inseparable phrasal verbs cannot be separated by other words. Separable Phrasal Verbs You can insert other words into the middle of a separable phrasal verb. Consider the following example, using the phrasal verb  take back : ü   I need to take back the shirt I lent you. ü   Where’s that shirt I lent you? I need to take it back . However, there is one important thing to remember! If we want to use a  pronoun  (like him, her, them, us, or it), we  must separate the phrasal verb . For example: Correct:  This is very important information. Please  write it down . Incorrect:  This is very important information. Please  write down it .  It's also important to remember that if the object is quite long, we  usually