past tense

PAST TENSE

Past tense simple used to express an activity to the situation that started and end periodically in past time. At the time of felling it in this time, the situation or activity have been done or happened. Or for describing acts that have already been concluded and whose exact time of occurance 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 tenses which is used to describe an event or action that happened already in a certain time in the past.

The formula with nominal sentence :

(+) S + was/were + comp

(-) S + was/were + not + comp

(?) was/were + S + Comp ?

note :

was is the past form from to be is, am

were is the past form from to be are

the formula with verb sentence :

(+) S + V II + O/Comp

(-) S + did + not + V I + Comp

(?) Did + S + V I + Comp ?

Kind of past tense :

There are some kind of past tense

^ Past progressive tense / past continuous tense

^ past perfecet tense

^ past perfect progressive tense