Simple Past Tense

Simple Past Tense digunakan untuk berbicara tentang hal yang sudah terjadi/lampau. se-lampau apapun hal itu tidak ada masalah.

kamu selalu menggunakan Simple Past Tense ketika kamu mengatakan ada hal yang terjadi,
sehingga hal ini terkait dengan ekpresi masa lalu tertentu.

• Frekuensi : often, sometimes, always.
  I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.
  I often brought my lunch to school.
• a definite point in time: 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 at seven o'clock.
  I went to the theatre last night.
• an indefinite point in time: 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. 

Membentuk Simple Past Tense
Patterns of simple past tense for regular verbs

Affirmative
Subject	+ verb + ed
I	skipped.
Negative
Subject	+ did not	+ infinitive without to
They	didn't	go.
Interrogative
Did	+ subject	+ infinitive without to
Did	she	arrive?
Interrogative negative
Did not	+ subject	+ infinitive without to
Didn't	you	play?

Simple past tense of to be, to have, to do

 

Subject	Verb
	Be	Have	Do
I	was	had	did
You	were	had	did
He/She/It	was	had	did
We	were	had	did
You	were	had	did
They	were	had	did

		Simple past, irregular verbs   to go He went to a club last night. Did he go to the cinema last night? He didn't go to bed early last night. to give We gave her a doll for her birthday. They didn't give John their new address. Did Barry give you my passport? to come My parents came to visit me last July. We didn't come because it was raining. Did he come to your party last week?