Grammer Point Unit 3 English Professional I

1. TO BE : WAS, WERE

+	I was	a student of SMA 6 Surabaya
	He/She/It was	good in a team
	You/We/They were	at the office yesterday
–	I was not	a student of SMA 6 Surabaya
	He/She/It was not	good in a team
	You/We/They were not	at the office yesterday
?	Was I	a student of SMA 6 Surabaya
	Was he/she/it	good in a team
	Were you/we/they	at the office yesterday?

2. PAST SIMPLE

A. Form of the Verb in the Simple Past Tense

1. Regular Verbs

Verb	Ending	Example
Ends in a consonant	+ ed	I worked at the office
(e.g. work)
Ends in –e (e.g. decide)	+ d	He decided t take a taxi
Ends with a consonant + vowel + consonant (e.g. stop)	Double the final consonant + ed	He stopped smoking two years ago
Ends in a consonant + y (e.g. study	Change y to ied	He studied civic at UNESA Surabaya

2. Irregular verbs

Many frequently used verbs are irregular :

Buy – bought cost – cost know – knew write – wrote

Make – made meet – met send – sent

(see list of irregular verbs in appendix)

B. We use the simple past to talk about :

– A completed single action in the past

We gave them a lot of money

Mrs. Tuty made a cake in the kitchen

– A past state that is now finished

I met him yesterday

They played football in the yard

– A repeated action in the past

We went to Jakarta last Sunday

The Secretary always wrote a letter to her boss

C. Past time references

We use the simple past tense with expression that refer to a definite moments or period in the past.

In + month	In December
+ year	In 2008
+ decade	In the 1990s
+ century	In the 20th century
on+ day/date	On 21st January

He first set up in business in 2004

The 1980s were relatively prosperous

We signed the contract on 3^rd April 2005

Other expression used in the simple past tense are last……, yesterday,…..ago

They had a meeting last week

He visited the factory yesterday

She left the company five years ago

D. Negative statement

To make a negative statement about the past we use did not/didn’t + infinitive without to

+	–
I went to office by car	I did not go to office by car
She saw you yesterday	She did not see you yesterday
They worked hard	They did not work hard

E. Question forms

We make a questions about the past with did/didn’t + subject + infinitive without to

Did you go to office by car? Yes, I did / No, I didn’t

Did she see you yesterday? Yes, she did / No, she didn’t

Did they work hard? Yes, they did / No, they didn’t

Sumber : Hand Out English Professional I Stie PGRI DEWANTARA JOMBANG by Ida Setyawati, S.Pd, M.Pd

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