En principio la negación en el simple past funciona
como ya lo hemos descrito en el capítulo negación.
Aparte del verbo to be and
to have, que tienen una
negación propia, se forma la negación con
to do en el simple past.
ejemplos
In 1980 I went
to school.
In 1980 I did
not go to school.
He
bought a
bike last month.
He did
not buy a bike last month.
The
school was
red still yesterday.
The school was
not red still yesterday.
He
played
the piano.
He did
not play the piano.
Yesterday she gave
him a present.
Yesterday she did
not give him a present.
It was
dark and cold, when he came
out of the house.
It
was not dark
and cold, when he did
not come out of the house.
I read
a book the day before yesterday.
I did
not read a book the day before yesterday.
They
saw the light
at the end of the tunnel last year.
They did
not see the light at the end of the
tunnel last year.
Por el hecho de que el simple past
de los verbos modales es idéntico al condicional
muy a menudo hay que negar la perifrasis que sustituye
al simple tense ambiguo.
(vea también 8º
capítulo 8.2.5)
