SIMPLE PAST TENSE

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Simple past tense digunakan untuk:

a. menyatakan kejadian, kegiatan atau situasi yang terjadi di waktu lampau (sebelum sekarang) dengan menyebutkan waktu terjadinya secara spesifik maupun tidak.
- Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
- They arrived in Geneva yesterday.
- I saw that film last week.
- She finished her work at seven o’clock.
- He lived here for two years.
- Peter left five minutes ago.
- I drank three cups of coffee this morning.

b. menyatakan kebiasaan atau kegiatan yang sering dilakukan di waktu lampau
- Last summer, we went to the beach every day.
- He always drank a glass of milk in the morning.
- He travelled a lot when he was younger.
- She played the piano when she was a child.

c. menyatakan kegiatan yang terjadi secara berurutan atau susul menyusul.
- She put on her coat and picked up her bag. Then she opened the door and went out.
- He got up, had breakfast and went out.


Keterangan waktu yang biasa dipakai dalam simple past tense adalah:
- yesterday, yesterday morning / afternoon / evening,
- last night / week / month / year / Saturday,
- a minute ago, two days / weeks / months / years ago,
- in 2001, in April, on 25th March, on that day, at six o’clock,
- today, this morning / afternoon