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Questions with did, was, were - Simple Past
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Questions with do, does - Simple Present
Questions with did, was, were - Simple Past
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Short answers
Simple Past - Questions -Exercise 1 Exercise 2
1) Questions without question words in the Simple Past
Auxiliary | Subject | Verb | Rest | Yes/No | Subject | Auxiliary (+ n't) |
Did | Max | play | football? | Yes, | he | did. |
| | | | No, | he | didn't. |
Did | you | watch | the film yesterday? | Yes, | I | did. |
| | | | No, | I | didn't. |
BUT:
to be | Subject | xxx | Rest | Yes/No | Subject | Auxiliary(+ n't) |
Were | you |   | in Leipzig last week? | Yes, | I | was. |
| | | | No, | I | wasn't. |

2) Questions with question words in the Simple Past
Question word | Auxiliary | Subject | Verb | Rest | Answer |
What | did | you | do | yesterday evening? | I did my homework. |
When | did | she | meet | her boyfriend? | She met him yesterday. |
Where | did | they | go | after thematch? | They went to a café. |
BUT:
Question word | to be | Subject | xxxxx | Rest | Answer |
Where | were | you |   | yesterday? | I was at the cinema. |
1) Subject question
Question word | Verb | Rest | Subject | Verb | Object - Place - Time |
Who | runs | to the shop? | Peter | runs | to the shop. |
What | happened | yesterday? | A tragedy | happened | yesterday. |

2) Objectquestion
Question word | Auxiliary | Subject | Verb | Rest | Answer |
Who | do | you | like? |   | I like my mum. |
Who | did | Mandy | phone | last Monday? | Mandy phoned her uncle. |
What | do | you | read? |   | I read detective stories. |
NOTE!
Subject question | Object question |
Who | phoned | John? | Who | did | John | phone? |

                          |   | El pasado simple:formas interrogativas

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Short questions |   |   | Preguntas cortas |
                                                                                                     ENGLISH |   | CASTELLANO |
Did + subject  + (infinitive of the verb)
  | |   | Did + sujeto + (forma infinitiva del verbo)
(en castellano es distinto...) |   |
DID      I         play tennis | yesterday  ? |   | ¿Jugaste al tenis      | ayer? |
DID     you   study French | yesterday morning ? |   | ¿Estudiaste francés | ayer a la mañana? |
DID      he     paint the house   | yesterday afternoon? |   | ¿Pintó la casa               | ayer a la tarde? |
DID      she  work | last night ? |   | ¿Trabajó    | anoche? |
DID     It    rain     
  | last week? |   | ¿Llovió                | lasemana pasada? |
DID      we  start school | in 1999? |   | ¿Comenzamos la escuela | en 1999? |
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DID    they  visit us   
  | two days ago?
  |   | ¿Nos visitaron |
hace dos días?
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SOME USEFUL WH QUESTIONS |   |   | ALGUNAS PREGUNTAS WH DE UTILIDAD |
                                                                                                    ENGLISH (usual structure to form wh questions) |   | CASTELLANO (estructura más usual en preguntas wh) |
WH + auxiliary did + subject + verb | |   | Wh + auxiliar did + sujeto  + verbo |   |
What     did           you         do | yesterday   ? |   | ¿Que hiciste       | ayer? |
What    did  Tom do | yesterday morning  ? |   | ¿Que hizo Tomás | ayer a la mañana? |
What time  did you  wash  yourhair   | this morning? |   | ¿A que hora te lavaste el pelo             | esta mañana? |
Where   did  you   go | last night ? |   | ¿Dónde fuiste | anoche? |
When    did    you   start  primary school ? |   |   | ¿Cuando comenzaste la escuela primaria?              |   |
When did  Mahatma Ghandi die? |   |   | ¿Cuando murió Mahatma Ghandi? |   |
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