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Stative Verbs
The following verbs are not usually used in the TIME EXPRESSIONS
Present Progressive. They are called stative verbs. yesterday / yesterday morning, etc.
last night/week/weekend/month/year
• see, hear, smell, taste, feel etc. last Wednesday/Friday, etc.
• like, love, hate, want, need, etc. last summer/winter, etc.
• think, understand, know, agree, promise, hope, etc. two days / a week / three months / ive years ago
• be, have, cost, etc. in + year

NOTE NOTE
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Some stative verbs can be used in progressive The Past Simple of the verb can is could.
tenses, but with a di ferent meaning. The Past Simple of the verb be is was/were.
see
I’m seeing my doctor tomorrow.
think of/about
I’m thinking of buying a car. Past Simple of the verb be
have
(with words like: lunch, breakfast, shower, barbecue) AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE
She’s having a shower at the moment.
I/He/She/It was I/He/She/It wasn’t (=was not)
We/You/They were We/You/They weren’t (=were not)
Past Simple
QUESTIONS SHORT ANSWERS
AFFIRMATIVE Yes, I/he/she/it was.
I/He/She/It/We/You/They worked/went Was I/he/she/it ? No, I/he/she/it wasn’t.

Yes, we/you/they were.
Were we/you/they?
NEGATIVE No, we/you/they weren’t.
I/He/She/It/We/You/They didn’t work/go

The verb used to
QUESTIONS
AFFIRMATIVE
Did I/he/she/it/we/you/they work/go?
I/He/She/It used to play
We/You/They

NOTE NEGATIVE

Look at the list of irregular verbs. I/He/She/It didn’t use to play
We/You/They

QUESTIONS
We use the Past Simple for:
• actions that started and were completed at a Did I/he/she/it use to play?
speci ic time in the past. we/you/they
We bought our house ive years ago.
• habitual or repeated actions in the past. We use the verb used to to talk about something that
I always went to bed early when I lived with my happened regularly in the past, but no longer does.
parents. We used to go skateboarding every afternoon when
• completed actions that happened one after the we were young.
other in the past.
Yesterday I got up at 8.00, had breakfast and left for
school.

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