Contoh Soal Past Perfect Tense Simple and Continuous
Contoh Soal Past Perfect Tense Simple and Continuous - If you like reading or listening to folktales, you will know that the story of a folktale is delivered in chronological order using past tense. The tense used in folktales is past tense as folktale is a traditional story that parents have passed on to their children through speech over many years. Understanding all types of past tense will make easier to understand the folktale. The story of a folktale usually is about how goodness defeats the badness.
Simple past tense
Somebody did something in the past
The first tense you will find in a folktale is simple past tense. This basic form of past tense is used to talk about events in the past. To make sentences in past tense form, you need to use past form of verb, the regular past form of verbs is –ed form and the irregular past form of verbs is in different forms. In making sentences in negative and interrogative, auxiliary did is needed. Look at the following structure:
S + Past Verb + Complement
Past continuous tense
- Somebody was doing something in the past
The past continuous is past tense with two parts: the past form of be (was/were) and verb in –ing form. It is used to talk about events which continued before and after another event. It talks about uncompleted events in the past. For example:
- The prince was talking to the princess when the king came.
- The man was sleeping when the crab tried to eat him.
Look at the following structure of past continuous tense:
S + was/were + verb-ing + Complement
Past perfect tense
Somebody had done something in the past
Besides, simple past tense and past continuous tense, you may also find past perfect tense in folktales. The past perfect tense is used to tell that an event happened and completed before another event in the past. The tense is used to let the reader or listeners know clearly which event happened first. The tense has had + past participle form. For example:
- The king had governed the country for a long time when the giant attacked.
- The king had fallen in love with another woman when he married Queen Elsa.
S + had + perfect verb + Complement
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The following sentence which is written in correct past continuous tense form is ….
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Left - had - arrived - giant - when - Everyone - the
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I cooked some meals for my husband last night.
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Were you watching TV at the time of the incident?
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