SIMPLE PAST TENSE

DEFINISI DARI SIMPLE PAST TENSE

Simple past tense, terkadang disebut preterite, digunakan untuk membicarakan kejadian yang sudah selesai di waktu sebelum sekarang. Simple past adalah bentuk dasar dari past tense dalam bahasa Inggris. Kejadian dapat terjadi belum lama di masa lalu atau sudah lama di masa lalu, dan durasi kejadiannya tidak penting.

CONTOH

• John Cabot sailed to America in 1498.
• My father died last year.
• He lived in Fiji in 1976.
• We crossed the Channel yesterday.

Anda selalu menggunakan simple past saat mengatakan kapan sesuatu terjadi. Jadi, tense ini berkaitan dengan ekspresi waktu lampau tertentu.

• frekuensi: often, sometimes, always
  I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.
  I often brought my lunch to school.
• waktu yang spesifik atau jelas: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago
  We saw a good film last week.
  Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva.
  She finished her work atseven o'clock
  I went to the theatre last night
• waktu yang tidak spesifik atau tidak jelas: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago
  People lived in caves a long time ago.
  She played the piano when she was a child.

Catatan: Kata ago adalah cara yang baik untuk menyatakan jarak ke masa lalu. Kata ini diletakkan setelah periode waktu: a week ago, three years ago, a minute ago.

Hati-hati: Simple past dalam bahasa Inggris mungkin terlihat seperti tense dalam bahasa Anda, tetapi artinya mungkin berbeda.

MEMBENTUK SIMPLE PAST TENSE

POLA DARI SIMPLE PAST TENSE UNTUK KATA KERJA BERATURAN

Positif
Subjek	+ kata kerja (verb) + ed
I	skipped.
Negatif
Subjek	+ did not	+ infinitive tanpa to
They	didn't	go.
Pertanyaan
Did	+ subjek	+ infinitive tanpa to
Did	She	arrive?
Pertanyaan negative
Did not	+ subjek	+ infinitive tanpa to
Didn't	You	play?

TO WALK

Positif	Negatif	Pertanyaan
I walked.	I didn't walk.	Did I walk?
You walked.	You didn't walk.	Did you walk?
He walked.	He didn't walk.	Did he walk?
We walked.	We didn't walk.	Did we walk?
They walked.	They didn't walk.	Did they walk?

SIMPLE PAST TENSE DARI TO BE, TO HAVE, TO DO

Subjek	Kata Kerja (Verb)
	Be	Have	Do
I	was	Had	did
You	were	Had	did
He/She/It	was	Had	did
We	were	Had	did

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