Pengertian kalimat simple past tense dan contoh soal-Setelah banyak penjelasan mengenai bentuk dan rumus kalimat simple past tense sebelumnya, kali ini saatnya untuk merefresh dan menggali materi melalui latihan soal.
Perlu diingat kembali Bentuk dan rumusan kalimat Simple Past Tense
, Kalimat Simple past tense adalah suatu bentuk kalimat yang kata kerjanya digunakan untuk menyatakan
kejadian yang dilakukan pada saat lampau.Adapun yang perlu diingat dalam menyusun kalimat bentuk
tense ini adalah kita perlu tahu
bentuk regular verb/past forms dan irregular pas forms.Rumus simple pas tense dapat dituliskan untuk bentuk positif:
S | V (past) | M |
The concert | began | at seven o’clock |
They | were | busy |
Bentuk negatifnya:
S | to be (was/ were)/ Auxiliary verbs (did) | not | verb word | M |
The concert | did | not | begin | at seven o’clock |
They | were | not | – | busy |
Bentuk kalimat Tanya:
To be (was/were) /Auxiliary verbs (did) | S | verb word | M |
Did | the concert | begin | at seven o’clock? |
Were | they | – | busy? |
Berikut ini contoh soalnya:
1. Before the Angles and the Saxons________ to England, the Iberians had lived there.
a. coming
b. come
c. came
d. did come
2. When Columbus _______ the New World, he thought that he had reached the East Indies by way of Western route.
a. see
b. saw
c. seen
d. sees
3. They __ it very well after they had practiced.
a. do
b. does
c. did
d. done
4. Before she ____ the computer program, she had checked it out with her supervisor.
a. runs
b. ran
c. run
d. running
5. We ___ our dinner in Albuquerque on our vacation last year.
a. eating
b. eat
c. ate
d. eaten
6. My nephew _____ working for me about ten years ago.
a. begin
b. began
c, begun
d. beginning
7. I know that you ____ forty on your last birthday.
a. are
b. were
c. been
d. be