Saturday, November 20, 2010

past tense


wow,our next material is about tense.Do you know what?Yes,that's about past tenseSimple past tense is a kind of tense which is used to describe an event or action that happened already in a certain time in past.
The pattern :
(+) subject + verb II + complement
(-) subject + did not + verb I + complement
(?) did + subject + verb I



 The example :
(+) I went to Jakarta last week
(-) I did not go anywhere yesterday
(?) did you go last Sunday?

 Adverbs used :
Yesterday, last night, last week, two days ago, efew minutes ago, last weekend, last month, last year, in 1995, etc.

 Past continous 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 + wasnot / werenot + verb-ing + complement
(?) was / were + subject + verb-i

 The example :
(+) she was reading a book at eight o’cloock last night
(-) she was not reading a book at eight o’cloock last night
(?) was she reading a book at eight o’cloock last night

 Adverb used
At the time like this yesterday, at seven o’cloock last night, etc.

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