Definition of Past Tense :
Past tense
is to tell the events or incidents at the past time.
Past
tense is used :
:: When the speaker thinks of an
activity or state as occurred and complete at a specific time in the past .
:: For a non-fact in the present or
future time.This is traditionally called the” subjunctive mood “.
Example : f I had the money now,I’d
buy a car .
=) To refer
a single event on the past .
Example : I called Mary last night .
=) The past
habitual action .
Example : We went to school together,and we
shared many experinces .
The
Simple Past Tense :
Simple Past
Tense is kind of tense which is used to describe an event or action that
happened already in a certain time in the past.
Adverbs
used: yesterday,last night ,last week,two days ago,a few minutes ago,last
weekend ,last month ,last years,in 1984,etc
=) Simple past for regular verbs is
added by- ed to the root of a word .
Example :
Ryeowook sleep at the beach yesterday .
=) A negation is produced by adding did
not and the verb in its infinitive form .
Example :
Ryeowook did not sleep at the beach yesterday .
Question
sentence are started with did as in Did Ryeowook sleep at the beach
yesterday ?
Verbal
There are
two pattern of Simple Past Tense :
( + )
Subject + verb II + complement
( - )
Subject + did not + verb I + complement
( ? )
Did + subject + verb I ?
Nominal
( + )
Subject + to be ( was/were ) + Object
( – )
Subject + to be ( was/were ) + Not + Object
( ? ) To be
( was/ were ) + Subject + Object ?
Past
Continuonus Tense
Past
Continuonus Tense is a kind of tense that is used to describe an event or an
action which was happening in a certain in the past.
As with the
present tense,the continuous aspect that the activity is in progress ,or that
it is uncompleted ,at the specified time.
The Pattern
:
( + )
Subject + to be ( was/were ) + verb – ing + complement
( - )
Subject + was not / were not + verb- ing + complement
( ? )
Was/were + subject + verb-ing + complement ?
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 or finished till certain or
an event that had happened before the other event or action happened.
The Pattern
:
( + )
Subject + had + verb III + complement
( – )
Subject + had not + verb III + complement
( ? ) Had +
subject + verb III + complement ?
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