Simple Past Tense Contoh
Simple Past Tense Excercise
Pada simple past tense, waktu kejadian (yesterday, two days a go, last year) atau periode waktunya (for two months, for a day, for an hour) dapat disebutkan secara spesifik. Simple past tense juga dapat digunakan untuk membentuk conditional sentence tipe 2.
Rumus Simple Past Tense
Simple past tense dibentuk dari verb-2 (past tense) berupa kata kerja biasa atau verb “to be”. Verb-2 merupakan bare infinitive (bentuk dasar verb) dengan tambahan -ed, -en, -d, -t, -n, atau -ne untuk regular verb atau bentuk yang tidak konsisten pada irregular verb, sedangkan pada verb “to be”, verb-2 berupa was dan were.
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Tabel Rumus Verbal
+ Subject + Verb2 + Object/Adverd
- Subject + didn't + Verb1 + Object/Adverb
? Did + Subject + Verb1 + Object/Adverb?
Tabel Rumus Non-Verbal
+ Subject + was/were + Adjective/Noun + Adverb
- Subject + was/were not + Adjective/Noun + Adverb
? Was/Were + Subject + Adjective/Noun + Adverb
Note
Adjective: a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
Noun: a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun).
+ I fixed a car two days a go
- I didn't fix a car two days a go
? Did I fix a car two days a go?
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+ They failed excercise yesterday
- They didn't fail excercise yesterday
? Did they fail excercise yesterday?
Example Non-Verbal
+ She was angry yesterday
- She wasn't angry yesterday
? Was she angry yesterday?
+ They were doctors last year
- They weren't doctors last year
? Were they doctors last year?
Fungsi dari Simple Past Tense
1. Simple Past Tense untuk membicarakan aksi yang terjadi dengan durasi waktu tertentu di masa lampau. Preposition “for” dapat digunakan untuk menyatakan periode waktu kejadian.
- Gusti and I went to the Ragunan zoo last week. (Saya dan gusti pergi minggu lalu.)
- Did she come on time yesterday? (Apakah dia datang tepat waktu kemarin?)
- The party started at 09.00 a.m. (Pesta mulai jam sembilan pagi.)
- Did they sleep enough last night? (Apa mereka cukup tidur semalam?)
- I studied English Teacher for almost 4 years. (Saya belajar guru bahasa Inggris selama hampir 4 tahun.)
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2. Simple past tense untuk membicarakan kebiasaan pada masa lampau. Subordinate conjunction “when” biasanya digunakan pada situasi ini.
- I often did exercises in the gym when I lived in Medan. (Saya sering berlatih di gym ketika tinggal di Medan.)
- When I was a junior high school student, I always got up at 5 am to study. (Ketika saya SMP, saya selalu bangun jam 5 pagi untuk belajar.)
3. Untuk menunjukkan bahwa ada aksi berdurasi pendek (simple past tense) yang terjadi ketika suatu aksi berdurasi panjang (past continuous tense) sedang berlangsung.
- I was listening a music in the cafe when someone burped out loud. (Saya sedang mendengarkan musik di cafe ketika seseorang bersendawa keras.)
4. Untuk menunjukkan bahwa suatu aksi (simple past tense) langsung mengikuti aksi yang telah selesai (past perfect tense).
- I had already finished my lunch when he picked me up. (Saya telah selesai makan siang ketika dia menjemput.)
5. Simple past tense digunakan pada conditional sentence type 2.
- If he studied hard, he would be pass. (Jika dia belajar keras, dia akan lulus.)
- I would buy a house if I had much money. (Saya akan membeli rumah jika punya uang banyak.)
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