Simple Past Tense: Pengertian, Rumus dan Contoh Kalimat

Berikut ini contoh kalimat verbal simple past tense, dikutip dari Gramedia:

- My mom and I went to the zoo yesterday (Saya dan ibu pergi ke kebun binatang kemarin)

- I played football last week (Saya bermain bola minggu lalu)

- Arini did not attend my birthday party (Arini tidak menghadiri pesta ulang tahun saya)

- Last monday, We didn’t come to the opening ceremony (Senin kemarin, kami tidak datang ke upacara pembukaan)

- Did you go to the school yesterday? (Apakah kamu pergi ke sekolah kemarin?)

- Did your dad give you money? (Apakah ayahmu memberikanmu uang)

Rumus Nominal Simple Past Tense

(+) Subject + to be (was/were) + adjective/adverb

(-) Subject +to be (was/were) + adjective/adverb

(?) to be (was/were) + Subject + adjective/adverb

Baca juga: Simple Present Tense: Pengertian, Ciri-ciri, Rumus, dan Contoh Kalimat

Sebagai informasi, Was digunakan untuk subjek I, She, He, It.

Sedangkan were, digunakan untuk subjek You, They, We.

Contoh Kalimat Nominal Simple Past Tense

- I was here last night (Semalam saya ada disini)

- We were late yesterday (Kami semua terlambat kemarin)

- -He was not happy because of me (Dia tadi tidak senang karena saya)

- They were not home last night (Mereka tidak ada di rumah tadi malam)

- Was she pretty? (Apakah dia cantik?)

- Were you at Dina’s house? (Apakah kamu tadi ada di rumah Dina?)

(Tribunnews.com/Yurika)