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Discussion of simple past tense

a) Definition of simple past tense The Simple past tense is used to state the facts or used to talk about activities or situations that began and ended at a particular time in the past could be a few minutes ago, an hour ago, two days ago, last month, last year and so, an important period of time has passed and nothing to do with the present. The Simple past tense form of the verb is a simple way to show that an event never happened and it has been customary in the past. In addition, the tense is also used. The simple past tense divided into 2 : nominal and verbal, Similarly with in simple present tense. verbal was used verb if nominal usually to be as in simple present use is, am, are in the simple past tense use was and were. In the simple past tense there are also 3 statement : Positif statement Negative statement : subject + V2 + object/complement : subject +did not + v1 + object/complement : did + subject + v1 + object/complement

Interrogative statement

Was

= she,he,it,name,and I

Were = you,they and we In the simple past tense sentence, the word used is the auxiliary "did" and this applies to all subjects. In different to the simple present tense using "do" and "does" depending upon the subject of the sentence. So the simple past tense is easier and less confusing. It's just that we have to know the second form of any verb that we use. The adverb of time in the simple past tense : o Yesterday o .ago o Last month o Last year o Etc.

In the simple past tense sentence was sometimes not use adverbs, but although there is no adjective in the sentence, we can understand that the activities / situations occurred in the past. Example : I got up late I didnt go up late Did I go up late? The verb used in the simple past tense is a verb form to 2, can be regular and irregular verbs,In regular verbs, change shape just add d / ed course.appropriate pattren I list above, the simple past tense, the verb to-2 is only used in a positive sentence, if in the negative and the introgative aries the second verb must be converted into the first form of the verb. Grammar in writing is required,and to activities in past we can use siple past tense.many students in schools today they not understanding about grammar,because many teacher not teach about grammar. and it is problematic when students want to make writing or essay,papers,tesis,etc. b) The pattern Subject + (V2) + Object

Positif statement

: subject + V2 + object/complement She took a bath Subject + was/were + object/complement She was here this morning

Negative statement

: subject +did not + v1 + object/complement She didnt teke a bath Subject + was/were not + object/complement She was not here this morning

Interrogative statement Did she take a bath?

Did + subject + v1 + object/complement Was/were + subject + object/complement Was she here this morning

c) There are two kinds of verb past In the changes verb are two kinds,irregular and regular verb. Example irregular verb :

Verb Base ( V1 ) Draw Eat Go Read Run Forget

Verb Past ( V2) Drew Ate Went Read Ran Forgot

Example regular verb :

Verb Base ( V1 ) Clean Join Lock Play Study Talk

Verb Past ( V2 ) Cleaned Joined Locked Played Studied Talked

I often did exercise in the gym when I lived in Jakarta. Simple past tense to talk about in daily activity in the past time When I was a senior high school student, I always got up at 5 am to take a bath. If he studied hard, he would be Simple past tense used in if conditional type 2. pass. (Jika dia belajar keras, dia akan lulus.)