THE GRAMMAR CORNER

Hi my friends, beautiful Sunday in Madrid today. As I haven't got much time during the week to write on my blog, I will do it now.
What a nice weather! I have just arrived home from THE RETIRO park and it has been a  real spring day! I love it! I don't like winter at all!

Well, we are going to do a revision about tenses.
Bien, vamos a hacer una revisión de tiempos verbales.

THE PAST SIMPLE

TO BE (ser o estar)
I was                      I wasn't                       was I?
you were                you weren't                 were you?
he/she/it was           he/she/it wasn't          was he?
we were                 we weren't                   were we?
you were                you weren't                 were you?
they were               they weren't                were they?

TO HAVE (GOT) (tener)
I had                    I didn't have                    did I have?
you had                you didn't have               did you have?
he/she/it had        he/she/it/didn't have        did he have?
we had                we didn't have                  did we have?
you had               you didn't have                 did you have?
they had              they dind't have                did they have?

* La forma HAVE GOT la utilizamos con la idea de más POSESIÓN y para expresar ciertas ideas aunque a la hora de hablar se emplean indistintamente HAVE  o  HAVE GOT.  Los ingleses usan más HAVE GOT y los americanos mas HAVE. Sin embargo, en PASADO no usamos el verbo HAVE con GOT cosa que sí hacemos cuando hablamos en presente, por ejemplo:
She has got one dog.  She hasn't got one dog.  Has she got one dog?

Ejemplo en pasado:  I had a good flight (yo tuve un buen vuelo)  I didn't have a good flight.  Did you have a good flight?

Acordaos de que cuando utilizamos partículas, da igual cuales sean, tenemos que dejar el verbo invariable, es decir, en infinitivo porque el tiempo entonces está ya en la partícula.

AHORA VAMOS A PONER UNAS FRASES PARA PRACTICAR.

- Soy de India.  Tengo 16 años.  ¿Eres inglés?
- Ella se llama Lisa.  Su nombre es Lisa.
- ¿Es Lisa ingeniera?  Sí.
- Cuando eras un niño pequeño, ¿eras feliz? Sí, lo era.
- Nosotros no éramos ricos pero tampoco éramos pobres.
- Hay una mesa grande en mi cocina.
- ¿Hay leche en el frigorífico?  Sí, hay.
- ¿Hay naranjas? No, no hay.
- Había café encima de la mesa.  No había hielo en el congelador.
- No había patatas.

- Tienes los ojos azules.
- ¿Tienes hermanos o hermanas? Sí, una hermana.
- Tenemos un coche nuevo.
- Cuando Mary era joven tenía el pelo largo y rubio.
- ¿A qué hora has desayunado esta mañana?
- Ella siempre se baña por la mañana.
- ¿Tenían ellos dinero? Sí, mucho.

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SOLUTIONS

-I'm from India. I'm sixteen years old. Are you English?
-Her name is Lisa.
-Is Lisa an engineer? Yes, she is.
-When you were a child, were you happy? Yes, I was.
-We were neither rich nor poor.
-There is a big table in the kitchen.
-Is there any milk in the fridge? Yes, there is some.
-Are there any oranges? No, there aren't any.
-There was some coffee on the table. There wasn't any ice in the freeze.
-There weren't any potatoes.

-You have got blue eyes.
-Have you got any brothers or sisters? Yes, one sister.
-We have got a new car.
-When Mary was younger, she had got long, fair hair.
-What time have you had breakfast this morning?
-She always has a bath in the morning.
-Did they have any money? Yes, a lot.

HAVE A NICE DAY!!