Jawaban:

Penjelasan:

1. Simple past tense adalah tense yang dipergunakan saat membicarakan peristiwa yang telah terjadi dan sudah selesai di masa lalu.

2. Cara membuat kalimat dengan simple past tense, simple past tense memiliki 2 rumus:

A. Simple past nominal: Bentuk ini digunakan untuk kalimat yang diikuti oleh kata sifat (adjective), kata benda (noun), dan keterangan tempat (adverb place)

To be dalam bentuk past ada dua: Was dan were. Was digunakan untuk I, He, She, dan It. Were digunakan untuk You, They, dan We.

Rumusnya:

Positive: Subject + to be + noun/adj/adv.

Negative: Subject + to be + not + noun/adj/adv.

Interrogative: To be + subject + noun/adj/adv + ?

Contoh:

He was a lecturer three years ago.

They were not at the mall last week.

Were you sick during the english class yesterday?

B. Simple past verbal: Bentuk ini disebut verbal dan dipakai ketika terdapat kata kerja (verb).

Rumusnya:

Positive: Subjek (I/You/They/We) atau (She/he/it) + V2

Negative: Subjek (I/You/They/We) atau (She/he/it) + Did + not + V1

Interrogative: Did + Subjek (I/You/They/We) atau (She/he/it) + V1 + ?

Contoh:

I loved you.

You did not love me / You didn't love me.

Did you love meat?

Perlu diperhatikan bahwa dalam bahasa inggris V2 terdapat bentuk regular dan irregular.

3. Adverbial of time past simple tense terdiri dari 5 sub point yaitu;

a. yesterday, yesterday morning/afternoon/evening

b. last … Sunday/week/month/year

c. a/an/one … ago (singular) atau … ago

d. past date/month/year atau past event

e. always, usually, frequently, often, sometimes, never, once, twice,dan adverb of frequency lainnya.

4. Contoh kalimat simple past tense:

a. I visited my friend yesterday at 17:00 p.m.

b. I went swimming with Tessa last sunday.

c. Last year, I traveled to Japan.

d. I played soccer last week.

e. I was born in 1999.