English For VIII

Simple Past Tense

Simple past tense is used to express about activities that happened in the past. Simple past is about the activities has happen and finish in the past. Adverb of time such as yesterday, just, this morning, last week, a few minutes ago, last Sunday, last month, last year. For regular verb, we add ed for example: Verb Play Study Listen Watch Explained Clean Past Tense II Played Studied Listened Watched Explained Cleaned III Played Studied Listened Watched Explained Cleaned

And for irregular verb, it has a change form or pattern, for example: Verb Begin Bring Catch Lose Drink Give Fly Eat Meet Rise Changing of to be, do, have: Subject I He, She, It They, You, We Pattern: Subject + to be (was, were) + Object/Complement + Adverb of time Subject + verbs II + Object/Complement + adverb of time To be (was, were, did) + Subject + Object/Complement + (?) To be was was were Do Did Did Did Have Had Had Had Past Tense II Began Brought Caught Lost Drank Gave Flew Ate Met Rose III Begun Brought Caught Lost Drunk Given Flight Eaten Met Risen

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5W1H + to be + Subject + Verb + Object/Complement + (?)

Ex: I was a student Was I a Student? She was an old woman They were a farmer Where were you last night? He went to the market yesterday Did you go to the market yesterday? They played badminton last week He ate a banana a view minutes ago We drank a cups of tea yesterday He taught an English lesson last month What did you do last week?

Narrative text is used to tell someone to entertain, stimulate emotion or to teach. Narrative text has three elements or parts: The orientation introduces main characters in a setting of place and time. The complication tells the problem of the story and how the main characters solve them. In this part there is a climax of the story. The resolution tells the ending of the story and always a happy ending. Narrative text uses the simple past tense. Preferences are used to express something that you like it much or not.

Prefer
Ex:

V - ing Noun

To

V - ing Noun

Like

V - ing Noun

Better than

V ing Noun

We prefer playing football to listening to the music. Ratih prefers water colors to crayons. Agus and his friends like playing badminton better than watching TV during holidays. Mary likes noodles better than meatballs soup. Would Rather V - base Noun Than V base Noun

Ex:

Listy would rather chit-chat with her friends than spend her time alone. Agung would rather have iced tea than water when he feels thirsty. I would rather go window shopping than stay at home in the weekend.

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Grandpa would rather have a macaroni soup than meatballs soup.