Past Tense

Past Tense

To respond and express the meaning nuance and the rhetorical steps within the short functional and simple monolog essay texts in the form of past tense (simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense)accurately and fluently in the daily life context to access knowledge.

Simple past is formed for regular verbs by adding –ed to the root of a word. Example: He walked to the store. A negation is produced by adding did not and the verb in its infinitive form.

The pattern :

– (+) Subject + verb II + complement

– (-) Subject + did not + verb II + complement

– (?) Did + subject + verb I

Past Continuous Tense is a kind of tense that is used to describe an event or an action which was happening in a certain time in the past

– The pattern :

– (+) Subject + was/were +verb-ing+ complement

– (-) Subject + was not/were not+verb-ing+ complement

– (?) was/were+ subject + verb-ing+complement

Adverbs used :

• – yesterday
• – last night
• – last week
• – two days ago
• – a few minutes ago
• – last weekend
• – last month
• – last year