SIMPLE PAST TENSE

Group 2
WHAT IS IT?
◦Simple past tense is a verb tense that is
used to talk about things that happened or
existed before now
WHAT IS THE FUNCTION?
◦To tell about activity that began in the past
and ended in the past too
◦We usually use simple past tense when the
adverb of time in the tense is spesific
STRUCTURE VERB
(+) S + V2 +O
◦ I went to Disneyland last holiday
(-) S + DID NOT + V1 + O
◦ I didn’t go to Disneyland last holiday
(?) DID + S + V1 + O
◦ Did you go to Disneyland last holiday?
STRUCTURE NOMN
(+) S + TOBE (was, were) + O + ADV
◦ She was in Jakarta last night
(-) S + TOBE + NOT + O + ADV
◦ She wasn’t in Jakarta last night
(?) TOBE + S + O + ADV
◦ Was she in Jakarta last night?
ADVERB
FREQUENCY (often, sometimes, always)
◦ I sometimes walked home at lunch time
◦ I often brought my lunch to school
A DEFINITE POINT IN TIME (last week, yesterday, 2 days ago, when I was child)
◦ We saw a good film last week
◦ Yesterday, I arrived in Surabaya
◦ I went to the theatre last night
AN INDEFINITE POINT IN TIME (the other days, a long time ago)
◦ People lived in caves a long time ago
Group 2
◦ Aulia Ahda Ihsana (05)
◦ Halawatun Nufus