SIMPLE PAST TENSE

Simple Past Tense digunakan untuk menjelaskan kegiatan/peristiwa yang terjadi pada masa lalu/lampau. Keterangan waktu yang digunakan adalah yesterday, last ... (night/week/month/year, etc), ago, this morning, just now, etc.

1. Affirmative/Positive

    Subject + Verb2 + (Object/complement) + ......

    atau

    Subject  + was/were + object/complement

    Contoh :

    I bought a new bag yesterday

    Rara was very happy got a new bag

2. Negative

    Subject + did not + Verb1 + (Object/complement) + ......

    atau

    Subject  + was/were + not + object/complement

Contoh :

I did not buy a new bag yesterday

Rara was not very happy got a new bag

 

3. Interrogative 

    Did + subject + Verb1 + (Object/complement) + ......

    atau

    Was/were + Subject  + object/complement

Contoh  :
Did I buy a new bag yesterday?
Was Rara very happy got a new bag?

Contoh soal :

Yesterday I didn't go to the meeting. I ...... my mother cook in the kitchen. She was very busy preparing for my sister's seventeenth birthday party.

a. help

b. am helping

c. will help

d. helped

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