Selasa, 30 November 2010

past tense

PAST PERFECT TENSE
Past perfect tense is a kind of tense that is used to describe an Action or an event that started in a certain time in the past and completed of finished certain time in the past too; or past perfect tense is used to Express an Action or an event that had happened before that other event or actionhappened.

Formula of Verbal Sentence
+ SUBJECT + HAD + V3
- SUBJECT + HAD + NOT + V3
? HAD + SUBJECT + V3?
Example:
+ She had slept when I came last night.
- She had not slept when I came last night.
? Had she slept when I came last night?
Formula of Nominal Sentence
+ SUBJECT + HAD + BEEN+ NON VERB
- SUBJECT + HAD +NOT + BEEN+ NON VERB
? HAD + SUBJECT + BEEN+ NON VERB?
Example:
+ I had been there when the accident hapenned.
- I had not been Three when the accident hapenned.
? Had had been there when the accident hapenned?

I had = I’d
You had = You’d
We had = We’d
They had = they’d
He had = he’d
She had = She’d
It had = It’d

SIMPLE PAST TENSE
Used to indicate that an act / event that never happened before / in the past. Simple Past Tense also has two forms, namely:

Nominal terms:
- I/you/we/they + to be (was) + complement
- He/she/it + to be (were) + complement
Example:
(+) She were beautiful
(-) She were not beautiful
(?) Were she beautiful?

Verbal Terms (using verbs):
(+) subject + Verb2 + object
(-) subject + did not +Verb1 + object
(?) did+ subject +Verb1 + object?
Example:
(+) He walked to school yesterday
(-) He did not walk to school yesterday
(?) Did he walk to school yesterday?



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