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Monday, November 29, 2010

Past Tense

Last month we make our advertisement video at my home
the exact palce is roof hehe :)
the weather is raining but that was supported our video
cause in the real video the weather is also raining haha.
do you know what pattern that i use on the underlined sentence?
you know it cause you read the title right wkwkkwkwkw
let's skip the funny thing and go on to our topic


 Definition of simple past tense:
simple past tense is a kind of tense which is use to describe an event or action that happened already in a certain time in the past.

1. Fuction of  simple past tense

  • to express that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past
  • to describe a habit which stopped in the past
  • to describe past facts or generalizations which are no longer true.
2.Types of verb in the past tense
  1. Regular Verbs: Verb that end with -ed in form of verb 2
  2. Irreguler Verbs: Verb that don't end with -ed in form of verb 2
3.The pattern


      1. Verbal
          (+) Subject + Verb 2 + complement
          (-)  Subject + did not + Verb 1 + complement
          (?)  Did + subject +  Verb 1 + complement?

     2. Non Verbal

          a. Adjective
          (+) S + tobe (was/were) + adjective
          (-) S + tobe (was/were) + not + adjective
          (?) Tobe (was/were) + S + adjective?

          b. Noun
          (+) S + tobe (was/were) + Noun
          (-) S + tobe (was/were) + not + Noun
          (?) Tobe (was/were) + S + Noun?


          c. adverb
    1. Adverb of place
    2. Adverb of time        

          

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