Past Tense

• PAST TENSE

Past tense is to tell the events or incidents at the past time.

Past tense is used : 

1. when the speaker thinks of an activity or state as occured and complete at a specific.
2. to refer a single event on the past.
3. for a non-fact in the present or future time. This is traditionally called the "subjunctive mood". 

Example :

1. If I had the money, I'd buy a car.
2. I called Isty last night.
3. We went to school together and we shared many experience.

• SIMPLE PAST TENSE

Simple past tense is a kind of tense which is used to describe an event or action that happened already in a certain time in the past.

Adverbs used:

 Yesterday, last night, last year, last month, a few minutes ago, two days ago, in 1984, etc...

There are two pattern in this topics :

      1. (+) subject + verb II + complement

          (-) subject + did not + verb I + complement

          (?) did + subject + verb I + ?

      2. (+) subject + to be (was/were) + object

          (-) subject + to be (was/were) + not + object

          (?) to be (was/were) + subject + object + ?

• PAST CONTINUONUS TENSE

Past continuonus tense is a kind of tense that is used to describe an event or an action which was happening in a certain in the past.

As with the present tense, the continuonus aspect that the activity is in progress, or that it is uncompleted, at the specified time.

The pattern :

         (+) subject + to be (was/were) + verb-ing + complement

         (-) subject + to be (was/were) + verb-ing + complement

         (?) to be (was/were) + subject + verb-ing + complement + ?