Tenses: Simple Past Tenses

TENSES:

​SIMPLE PAST TENSE

by Natasha Azani

Multiple Choice

What is past tense?

• an action that happened in the future

• an action that happened in the present

• an action that happened in the past

• None of the above

WHAT IS A SUBJECT?​

• Basically, a subject is a doer that has done an action in a sentence.

• Usually, we can find the subject at the beginning of the sentence.​

​For example:

• ​Gabby is talking to her sister right now.

​* here, Gabby is what we called a subject and the one who does the action (is talking).

WHAT IS A VERB?​

• A verb is the action done (usually by a subject) in a sentence.

• There are 2 types of verbs:

1. Action verbs ( play, sing, talk, eat, speak)

1. Helping verbs​ ( verb to be, verb to have, verb to do, modal verbs)

​For example:

• ​Adilla accidently broke her mother favourite vase.

​* here, the verb 'broke' [RV: break] is used to show what kind of action being done by the subject [Adilla].

Multiple Choice

"Maria is going to the gym later."

Which of the words in the sentence is the subject?

• later

• the gym

• Maria

• is going

Multiple Choice

"Where are we going?"

Which of the words in the sentence is the subject?

• going

• are

• Where

• we

Multiple Select

"Can anyone help me with the boxes?"

Which of the words in the sentence is the verb? ( choose 2)

• anyone

• can

• me

• help

• the boxes

What is Simple Past Tense?​

• A simple past is usually used to​ talk about an action or event that already happened or existed before.

​

A simple Past can be something about an action that you have done this morning.

​For example:

• ​Daniel unsuccessfully kicked a ball past a goal post just now.

Verbs used in SIMPLE PAST:​

There are 2 types of verbs used in SIMPLE PAST:

1. ​Regular verbs [ Root verb + -ed/-d ]

2. ​Irregular verbs [ the spellings (ejaan) and pronunciations (sebutan) are changed]

Regular verbs​

Root Verb + -ed/-d​

​Walk

​>>

​Walked

​

​ex: Gopal walked to school this morning.

​Talk

​>>

​Talked

​ex:

​My baby brother finally talked to me last night.

​bake

​>>

​Baked

​

​ex:

​She baked a birthday cake for me last week.

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IRREGULAR VERBS​

​where the spelling and the pronunciation of the verbs changed.

​sing

​>>

​sang

​ex: Rani sang the most beautiful song on stage.

​Write

​>>

​Wrote

​ex: Halina sometimes wrote a letter in japanese to her best friend in Japan.

​drink

​>>

​drank

​ex: Li Feng drank a cup of coffee this morning.

-There are some irregular verbs that cannot be changed.​

​-The verbs stayed the same in either the present form or the past form.

​read

​>>

​read ('red')

​

​ex: That boy read a lot of comics for the last few weeks.

​hit

​>>

hit

​ex: She angrily hit him in the face just now.

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