Past Tense

Standard Competency :
To comprehend and express the meanings of short functional and simple monolog essay texts in the form of past tense in the daily life context to access knowledge
Basic Competency :
To respond and express the meaning nuance and the rhetorical steps within the short functional and simple monolog essay texts in the form of past tense (simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense)accurately and fluently in the daily life context to access knowledge
Indicators :
After having finished the lesson, the student are expected to be able to:
understand the pattern of past tense
identify past tense in a certain text
use past tense in making sentences and telling an event or action.
Simple past is formed for regular verbs by adding –ed to the root of a word. Example: He walked to the store. A negation is produced by adding did not and the verb in its infinitive form. Example: He did not walk to the store. Question sentences are started with did as in Did he walk to the store?
Simple past is used for describing acts that have already been concluded and whose exact time of occurrence is known. Furthermore, simple past is used for retelling successive events. That is why it is commonly used in storytelling

Simple Past Tense is a kind of tense which is used to describe an event or action that happened already in a certain time in the past
The pattern :
(+) Subject + verb II + complement
(-) Subject + did not + verb II + complement
(?) Did + subject + verb I

The examples :
(+) I went to Tangkiling yesterday
(-) I did not go anywhere last night
(?) Did you go last week?
Past Continuous Tense is a kind of tense that is used to describe an event or an action which was happening in a certain time in the past
The pattern : (
+) Subject + was/were +verb-ing+ complement
(-) Subject + was not/were not+verb-ing+ complement
(?) was/were+ subject + verb-ing+complement

The examples :
(+) He was writing a letter at eight o’clock last night
(-) He was not writing a letter at seven o’clock last night
(?) Were you writing a letter at eight last night?

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 or finished till certain time in the past too; or past perfect tense is used to express an action or an event that had happened before the other event or action happened

The pattern :
(+) Subject + had+verb III+cmplement
(-) Subject + had not+ver III+complement
(?) Had + subject +verb III+complement

(?) Had they eaten before we came?
(-) They had not eaten before we came
(+) We had eaten before they came