Simple Past Tense: My First Day at Campus

Assalamu’alaikum wr.wb.. Today, My first blog in this year. Yeah I have ever stopped to write in my blog. But, now I will start to write again. I am going to explain about PAST TENSE and give an example based on my own story. We have already known that there are 4 tenses in PAST TENSE. There are Simple Past Tense, Past Continuous Tense, Past Perfect Tense, and Past Perfect Continuous Tense. Today, I will explain about SIMPLE PAST TENSE according my ability. Oke, Check it out.

SIMPLE PAST TENSE

DEFINITION OF THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE

The simple past tense is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. The simple past is the basic form of past tense in English. The time of the action can be in the recent past or the distant past and action duration is not important.

PATTERNS OF SIMPLE PAST TENSE:

VERBAL SENTENCE

(+) Subject + Verb2

Example: I skipped.

(-) Subject + Did not + Verb1

Example: They didn't go.

(?) Did + Subject + Verb1 + O/3C + ?

Example: Did she arrive?

(?-) Did not + Subject+ Verb1 +O/3C + ?

Example: Didn't you play?

NOMINAL SENTENCE:

Note: Subjects ( I, She, He, It) use Was. And Subjects (We, You, They) use Were.

(+) Subject + Was/Were + O/3C

Example: I was a Senior High School’s Student.

(-) Subject + Was/ Were + Not + O/3C

Example: We were not in IAIN Palangka Raya

(?) Was/Were + Subject + O/3C + ?

Example: Was I a University Student?

(?-) Was/Were + Not + Subject + O/3C + ?

Example: Was not she a teacher?

OTHER EXAMPLES:

Siska went to America in 2017.

My father died last year.

He lived in Pembuang Hulu in 1976.

We crossed the Channel yesterday

You always use the simple past when you say when something happened, so it is associated with certain past time expressions.

Frequency: often, sometimes, always

Examples:

I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.

I often brought my lunch to school.

A definite point in time: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago

Examples:

We saw a good film last week.

Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva.

She finished her work at seven o'clock

I went to the theater last night

An indefinite point in time: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago

Examples:

People lived in caves a long time ago.

Note: the word ago is a useful way of expressing the distance into the past. It is placed after the period of time: a week ago, three years ago, a minute ago.

THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF SIMPLE PAST TENSE IN A PARAGRAPH:

MY FIRST DAY AT MY CAMPUS

I told you about my first day at the campus. It was a day before my first day on campus. I was very nervous and uncomfortable. Maybe it was because I was very curious and didn't know anything. The worse, the night before my first day on campus. I could not sleep. I did't know why ... maybe because I was so impatient waiting tomorrow. And finally I slept in the middle of the night and woke up late. I was in a hurry to do obligations, took a shower, ate and got ready to go to campus first. when I leaved, time was tight. so I quickly walked without paying no attention to the road ... yeah like a crazy person who who chased first time. and when it arrived, it turned out that our class didn't enter.

I think that’s all about my explanation for today. I hope readers can more understand about SIMPLE PAST TENSE after read my blog. I know still there are mistakes in my blog. Please forgive me for these mistakes. Oke I think enough. Wassalamu'alaikum.