Corrección de errores con "Thought" en inglés

Clase 11 de 20 • Curso de Inglés Intermedio B1: Preguntas Negativas y Recomendaciones

Resumen

Cómo usar ‘thought’ para expresar expectativas del pasado

Puedes expresar expectativas del pasado utilizando la palabra “Thought”. Si alguien está diciendo algo equivocado, puedes corregirlo de forma educada de la siguiente manera:

Lionel Messi played for the Real Madrid in Spain.
I thought Lionel Messi had played for Barcelona in Spain.

Jupiter is the planet nearest to the earth.
I thought Mars was the planet nearest to the earth.

En ambos ejemplos, se utiliza un tiempo hacia atrás en los verbos. “Had played” en lugar de “played” y “was” en lugar de “is”.

Ejemplos de expresiones en inglés usando ‘thought’

Veamos algunos ejemplos más:

Will Smith is from England.
I thought Will Smith was from the US.

Egypt is a country in Europe.
I thought Egypt was a country in Africa.

Utiliza “I thought”, o expresiones similares, para mostrar que la realidad es diferente a nuestras expectativas.

Contribución creada por: Kevin Fiorentino.

Jose Ulises Vidal Gomez

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I thought Jackie Chan was from Hong Kong. I thought World War 2 had been fought in Europe. I thought Yuan was the currency from China.

The false statement is: Planet Earth is the 4th planet in the Solar System.

Bramucci Candela

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I thought The Earth was the third planet in the Solar System.

Camilo Andrés Villegas Roche

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Fourth? I thought it was in the center of the solar system, and also that it was flat!

Maria Alejandra Liscano

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We use ‘I thought’ or similar expressions to show that something is different from our expectation.

Practice

A and 5 B and 3 C and 1 D and 4 E and 2

Yesid Alejandro Peláez Posada

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Ivan Duque is the best Colombian's president.

Felipe Bernardo González Barranco

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I thought he was the best president in the whole universe :D

Andrés Ovidio Ocampo Puente

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I thought you have been living in a parallel world 😅🙏🏼🥴🙊

Bramucci Candela

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I thought Jackie Chan was from China.
I thought World War 2 was fought in Europe.
I thought Australian Dollar was the currency from Australia.

False statement

India is the country with most population.

Carlos Augusto Rodríguez Miranda

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I thought China was the country with most population

Kevin Fiorentino

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I thought Jackie Chan was from China.
I thought The World War 2 had fought in Europe.
I thought the Australian dollar is the currency from Australia.

Santiago Calvopina

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++"I thought World War 2 had been fought in Europe."++ ++I thought the Australian dollar **was **the currency from Australia.++

I thought you had to use a time backward in the verbs.

Daniel Fernando Roa Chamorro

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Payed has the same meaning like paid?

Milagros Fortis

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Hello Daniel, how are you? I tell you that "payed" is the past tense of "paid" so "paid" means "pago" and "payed" means "pagado". I hope I have cleared your doubts. See you soon!

Bramucci Candela

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Milagros I don't think your answer is correct. "Paid" is the past of pay. "Payed" is for the nautical sense. More info in grammarly.

Gheraldine Mancilla

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I thought Jackie Chan is from China. I thought World war 2 han been fought in Europe. I thought dollar is the currency from Australia.

Gabriel Hernández Valdez

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Hi, I have a question, in the example He tought he was ready to travel. Why the verb isnt backtime, dont know for example He tought he had been ready. In verb be, doesnt this rule apply?. TY :D

Angie Torres

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It's all because of the way you conjugate the verb "to be".

"Thought" and "was" are already in simple past tense. "Had been" is another tense called Past Perfect, here's a link where the difference between these two tenses is explained c:

https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/past-simple-or-past-perfect

These tenses are used in different situations, so it's all up to context and what you need to say in your sentence.