simple past tense

Simple Past Tense

By I Komang Hendra Pranata

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)

Ada 2 jenis kata kerja dalam Past Tense

• Regular Verb (Kata kerja beraturan)

• Irregular Verb (Kata kerja tidak beraturan)

Kata kerja beraturan atau regular verbs (V1+ed)

• Add: Added

• Allow : Allowed

• Walk : Walked

• Enter : Entered

Kata kerja tidak beraturan atau irregular verbs

• See : Saw

• Buy : Bought

• Run : Ran

• Go : Went

Keterangan waktu

Keterangan waktu dipakai untuk melengkapi suatu kalimat. Ada beberapa keterangan waktu dalam past tense yang secara umum digunakan dan menunjukkan bahwa waktu tersebut sudah berlalu, misalnya, last year, last morning, last night, yesterday, two days ago, three weeks ago, dan lain sebagainya.

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.

Multiple Choice

Sinta ........ a letter last night

• write

• wrote

• written

• writes

Multiple Choice

I….. sad when my best friend left me yesterday.

• am sad

• were

• was

• did

Multiple Choice

__________ they study French last year?

• Does

• Did

• Do

• Are

Multiple Choice

______ you _______ the dishes by yourself last night?

• Did ... wash

• Did ... washed

• Do ... wash

• Do ... washed

Multiple Choice

My childhood ________ happy and I would like to share about it.

•  is
• are

• were

• was

Multiple Choice

The old woman  __________ some cookies for her family yesterday.

• climbed
• baked
• ate
• cried