Simple Past VS Present Perfect

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Present perfect / Past simple

by Kerlyn Conlago

Simple Past Tense

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Present perfect simple and present perfect continuous

by Tito Alexander Portocarrero Torres

Adverb Phrases

by KAROL JIMENA VACA RIVERA

Simple Past VS Present Perfect

Did you want to dance?

Was she a doctor?

I didn't want to dance.

She wasn't a doctor.

She was a doctor.

Generally, we use with adverbs of time as "last year", "yesterday", "last night" ...

The simple past is used to talk about a specific action that began and ended in the past. In this case equals the Spanish preterite.

Estrucure

WAS/WERE+pronoun+complement+?

did + subject + verb in present + complement + ?

Pronoun+Wasn't/Weren't+complement

Pronoun +Didn't +Verb + complement

Subtema

Pronoun +Wasn't/Weren't +complement

Subject+ Verb in past + complement

Exmple

Have you talked to Peter? (¿Has hablado con Peter?)

She hasn't gone to work. (No ha ido a su trabajo.)

I've talked to Peter. (He hablado con Peter.)

Time Expresion

You can use the present perfect with no specific time expressions ("never", "ever", "many times", "for", "since", "already", "yet" ...). This concept of no specific time is quite difficult to understand, for this reason, then you have particular uses of the present perfect.

Use

The perfect present for actions that occurred in a non-specific time heretofore used. The specific time is not important. Therefore, we do not usually use with the present perfect expressions of specific time ("this morning", "yesterday", "last year" ...).

Estructure

Interrogative

Verb auxiliary + subject + past participle

Negative

Subject + verb auxiliary + past participle

Afirmative

Subject + Auxiliary + Verb in the past participle