simple past tense for class 8

Simple Past Tense

By Akh Fauzan, M.Pd

Simple Past Tense

Simple past tense adalah kalimat tenses yang digunakan untuk menyatakan kejadian yang terjadi di masa lampau dan telah berakhir di masa lampau. Berbeda dengan past continous tense, yakni menyatakan kejadian yang terjadi di masa lampau, namun masih terjadi di masa sekarang

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Penggunaan To be dan Verb dalam Simple Past Tense

To be : was untuk She, He, I dan It

: Were untuk You, They, We

Verb : Menggunakan kata kerja bentuk kedua (Regular/Irregular verb)

Kata kerja beraturan atau regular verbs (V1+ed)
(https://www.wallstreetenglish.co.id/regular-irregular-verb/)

• Add : Added

• Allow : Allowed

• Walk : Walked

• Enter : Entered

Kata kerja tidak beraturan atau irregular verbs

• See : Saw

• Buy : Bought

• Run : Ran

• Go : Went

Adverb of frequency (Keterangan waktu)
dalam simple past tense

Contoh kalimat Positive, Negative, dan Interrogative menggunakan TO BE

• She was sick last night

• She was not/wasn't sick last night

• Was she sick last night?

• They were very happy last summer

• They were not very happy last summer

• Were they very happy last summer ?

Contoh Kalimat Positive, Negative dan Interrogative menggunakan VERB

• Santi went to school yesterday

• Santi did not go to school yesterday

• Did Santi go to school yesterday?

• Ingat yaaa... khusus kalimat negative dan interrogative, VERB kembali berubah kebentuk awal karena sudah ada DID dalam kalimat tersebut.