PAST TENSE

Simple Past :

Past tense simple used to express an activity to the situation that started and end periodically in past time. At the time of telling it in this time, the situation or activity have been done or happened. Or for describing acts that have already been concluded and whose exact time of occurence is known. Futhermore, simple past is used for retelling successive events. That is why it is commonly used in storytelling.

Simple past Tense is a kind of tenses which is used to describle an event or action that happened already in a certain time in the past.

The Formula with nominal sentence

Sign	Formula	Example
+ Positive	S + WAS/WERE + COMP	Lia was in the library this morning
- Negative	S + WAS/WERE + NOT + COMP	Weny was not feel happy last night
? Interrogative	WAS / WHERE + S + COMP + ?	Were they here last month ?

Note :

Was is the past form from To be is, am

Were is the past form from To be are

The Formula with verb setence

Sign	Formula	Example
+ Positive	S + V2 + OBJ/COMP	Dyna went to Dr. Dyka the day before yesterday
- Negative	S + DID + NOT + V1 + OBJ/COMP	Nhya and Debbie did not drove car last sunday
? Interrogative	DID + S + V1 + OBJ/COMP ?	Did Mhey graved stone last march ?

Adverbs used : yesterday, last night, last week, two day ago, afew minutes ago, last weekend, last month, last year, in 1984, etc

Note :

For the positive setence we using V² but for the negative and interrogative setence we using V¹

Time Signal :

A moment ago	Yesterday
An hour ago	Yesterday morning
A few minutes ago	Yesterday afternoon
Two days ago	The day before yesterday
Several days ago	Last night
A few days ago	Last week
A week ago	Last month
Two weeks ago	Last year
A month ago	Last Sunday
A year ago	Last Friday
This morning	Last January
This noon Just now	Last March

Kind of past tense :

There are some kind of past tense :

Ø Past progressive tense / past continous tense

Ø Past perfect tense

Ø Pat perpect progressive tense