Grammar, comprehend the explanation below!
Simple Past Tense
Simple past tense is a sentence that shows happening in the past time. It is generally used to retell the condition or activities that already happened. To show the condition or activities had been done in the past, this tense uses VII as its verb or was/were for To Be. Sometimes these activities are shown by past adverb of time such as: last week, last year, last month, already, yesterday, two days ago, a week ago, etc. This kind of tense has a formula as shown below:
Affirmative or Positive formula:
S + VII + O/Adj/Adv
S + was/were + O/Adj/Adv
Examples of the sentences:
1. The car stopped in front of the market.
2. Linda played tennis yesterday.
3. We took some apples in the refrigerator.
4. The band was very famous at the middle of 90’s.
5. There were a lot of victims in the accident last Saturday.
6. They were champions in 2003.
Negative formula:
S + did not + VI +O/Adj/Adv
S + was/were not + O/Adj/Adv
Examples of the sentences:
1. Andi did not come late two days ago.
2. Didin did not hit the car.
3. They did not go to the cinema yesterday.
4. You did not play basketball last week.
5. I was not there.
6. They were not sad.
Interrogative or Question formula:
Did + S + VI + O/Adj/Adv …?
Was/were + S + O/Adj/Adv …?
Examples of the sentences:
1. Did you bring your glasses?
2. Did Rocky invite you to come last night?
3. Did Sarah meet the teacher before the class?
4. Did they let you in?
5. Was it you book?
6. Were they sad?
