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Past Tense: Past Tense Is Used To Be To Explain Something That Happen in The Past

The document discusses the four types of past tense in English: simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect continuous tense. It provides the formulas and examples for forming sentences in the positive, negative, and interrogative forms of each tense. The simple past tense is used to talk about completed past actions, the past continuous tense describes unfinished past actions, the past perfect tense refers to actions that happened before other past actions, and the past perfect continuous tense focuses on the ongoing process of past actions.

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Past Tense: Past Tense Is Used To Be To Explain Something That Happen in The Past

The document discusses the four types of past tense in English: simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect continuous tense. It provides the formulas and examples for forming sentences in the positive, negative, and interrogative forms of each tense. The simple past tense is used to talk about completed past actions, the past continuous tense describes unfinished past actions, the past perfect tense refers to actions that happened before other past actions, and the past perfect continuous tense focuses on the ongoing process of past actions.

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Past Tense

Past Tense is used to be to explain something that happen in the past.


The formula :

Positive
S
+
V2
Ex : Ina went to bandung yesterday.

Negative
S
+
Did not
+
Ex : I did not send you letter yesterday.

V1

Interrogative
Did
+
S
+
V1
Ex : Q : Did you borrow my book?
A : Yes, i did / No, i didnt.

Theres 4 kinds of Past Tense


1. Simple Past Tense
Simple Past Tense is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now.
The time of the action can be in the recent pastor the distant past.
The formula :
Positive
S
+
V2
Ex : The teacher came.
S
+
Was / Were
Ex : I was a stamp collector.

Negative
S
+
Did not
Ex : The teacher didnt come.

S
+
Was / Were +
Ex : I wasnt a stamp collector.

Interrogative
Did
+
S

V1

Not

V1

Ex : Did the teacher come?


Was / Were +
S
Ex : Was i a stamp collector?

2. Past Continuous Tense


Past Continuous Tense describes actions or events in a time before now, which
began in the past and is still going on at the time of speaking. In other words, it
expresses an unfinished or incomplete action in the past.
The formula :
Positive
S ( I, He, She, It )
+
Was +
V1
+
Ing
Ex : I was watching television last night.
S ( You, We, They ) +
Were +
V1
Ex : They were going to hospital yesterday.

Ing

V1

Ing

S ( You, We, They) +


Were not
+
Ex : They were not doing anything yesterday.

V1

Ing

V1

Ing

Were +
S ( You, We, They ) +
V1
Ex : Were you studying when i came to you?

Ing

Negative
S ( I, He, She, It )
+
Was not
Ex : I was not cyring yesterday.

Intrerrogative
Was +
S ( I, He, She, It )
Ex : Was she reading?

3. Past Perfect Tense


Past Perfect Tense refers to a time earlier than before now. It is used to make it
clear that one event happened before another in the past. It does not matter
which event is mentioned first the tens makes it clear which one happened
first.
The formula :
Positive

S
+
Had +
V3
Ex : He had gone when i arrived.

Negative
S
+
Had not
Ex : I had not arrived to her party.
Interrogative
Had +
S
+
Ex : Had they arrived?

V3

V3

4. Past Perfect Continuous Tense


Past perfect Continuous Tense corresponds to the present perfect continuous, but
with reference to a time earlier than before now. As with present perfect
continuous, we are more interested in the process.
The formula :
Positive
S
+
Had been
+
V1
+
Ing
Ex : He had been waiting for three days before his friend finally called
him.

Negative

S
+
Had not been +
V1
Ex : I had not been waiting for you.

Interrogative
Had +
Been +
V1
+ Ing
Ex : How long had you waiting for her?

Ing

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