In general, Simple past tense is sentences that tells about something that happen in the past.
Pattern :
(+) S + Verb 2 + complement
(-) S + did not + Verb 1 + complement
(?) Did + S + Verb ! + O + ?
Example :
(+) Helen rode the car yesterday
(-) Dhana didn’t read the book yesterday
(?) Did Sonia and Theo play the game yesterday ?
Past continous tense is a kind of tense that we use to describe our experience which was happening in certain time in the past,.
The pattern :
(+) S + was/were + verb-ing + complement
(-) S + was not/were not + verb-ing + complement
(?) Was/were + S + verb-ing + complement + ?
Example :
(+) Ade was playing football at seven o’clock last night
(-) Yudi was not reading a book at nine o’clock
(?) Were you listening to the music at five o’clock ?
Past perfect tense is a kind o tense that we use to describe event/action that started in a certain time in the past and completed or finished till certain time in the past too or an event happened before another event happened.
The pattern :
(+) S + had + Verb 3 + complement
(-) S + had not + Verb 3 + complement
(?) Had + S + Verb 3 + complement + ?
Example :
(+) He had drunk before he wrote
(-) She had not cried before her mom gone
(?) Had they played before their teacher came ?
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