4. Do you know about Past Tense?
Simple Past Tense is used to talk about an activity
or situasion that began and ended at a particular
time in the past.
( Simple past tense digunakan untuk berbicara
tentang suatu kegiatan atau situasi yang dimulai
dan berakhir pada waktu tertentu di masa lalu).
5. Pattern of past tense
(+) Subject + Verb II + Complement
(-) Subject + Did not (didn’t)+ Verb I + Complement
(?) Did + Subject + Verb I + Complement
Example :
(+) She studied english last night
( - ) She did not Study english last night
( ? ) Did She study english last night ? Yes, She did
No, She didn’t
6. Form: Verb “to be”
• I : I was born in England.
• he: He was a doctor.
• she: She was in the USA.
• it: It was cold yesterday
was
• we: We were at home yesterday.
• you: You were right!
• they: They were in Italy last
summer.
were
7. Negative Form: Verb ‘to be’
I, he, she, it - was not (wasn’t)
• I wasn’t sick last week.
• He wasn’t in come to my party
• She wasn’t at school on Monday.
we, you, they – were not (weren’t)
• We were not at home on Saturday.
• You weren’t happy with your grades.
• They weren’t angry with his behavior.
8. How do we form the simple past tense . . .?
English has two types of verbs in the past tense:
Regular verbs
Irregular verbs
• Brought
• Walked
• Became
• cried
9. Past Simple: Regular Verbs
The Past Simple tense of the most English
verbs (regular verbs) is formed by adding "-
ed"/"-d" to their base form. (If the verb ends
in "-e", we add "-d" to form the past simple)
Examples:
We arrived at 9:00 o'clock.
My brother lived in London four years ago.
When she was young, she danced beautifully.
10. Spelling Rules
• If a regular verb ends
in consonant + y change y to i and add -ed:
carry - carried, study - studied, fry -
fried, try - tried
• If a one syllable regular verb ends
in consonant + vowel + consonant double
the final consonant and add -ed -- > stop -
stopped, plan - planned, rob -
robbed, beg - begged
11. Irregular Verbs
There are also some verbs called irregular
verbs that have special past tense forms.
See list of irregular verbs
We went (go) to school yesterday.
Tamar wrote (write) the letter to her friend on
Sunday.
12. There are some common
expressions we use:
yesterday,
last night,
a month ago,
last week,
yesterday afternoon,
Last year, etc
13. Usage
1. Use the Past Simple to express an action
that started and finished at a specific time
in the past. Sometimes, the speaker may not
actually mention the specific time, but they
do have one specific time in mind.
Examples:
I saw a movie yesterday
14. 2. We use the Simple Past to list a series of completed
actions in the past.
Examples:
I finished work, walked to the beach, and found a nice
place to swim.
3.The Simple Past can be used with a duration which
starts and stops in the past. A duration is a longer
action often indicated by expressions such as: for two
years, for five minutes, all day, all year, etc.
Examples:
I lived in Brazil for two years.
Michael studied Japanese for five years.
15. 4.The Simple Past can also be used to
describe a habit which stopped in the past.
Examples:
I studied French when I was a child.
16.
17. Perhatikan bahwa pada kalimat positif, simple past
tense menggunakan kata kerja bentuk kedua,
sedangkan pada kalimat negatif dan pertanyaan kata
kerja berubah kembali menjadi bentuk
pertama/dasar.
Mengapa??
Karena pada kalimat negatif dan pertanyaan telah
ada kata kerja bantu “did” yang merupakan bentuk
kedua dari kata kerja bantu “do/does”, sehingga kata
kerja kedua berubah menjadi kata kerja pertama.
18. Question
• Ira : membedakan simple past tense sama present
perfect tense ?
• Yunita : was/were , menunjukan seperti apa?
• Aliyah : kenapa pada kalimat – kembali ke v1?
• Indah : kenapa i he she it (was) , we they you (were)?
• Restu : kenapa pakai were (you were right), kenapa
tidak pakai are dan di tambah keterangan waktu?
• Khalimatus : menurut kalian apakah simple past tense
bisa menggunakan kalimat pengandaiyan (if) ?
