After posting the easy one, I was thinking for
posting the new one, and here they are. The Simple Past Tense and The Present
Perfect Tense.
I`ve
got this materials when I was in 3rd semester, and I want to share
this for you all, to help you know more about simple present tense and also the
present perfect tense! Please Enjoy!
SIMPLE
PAST TENSE
The simple past tense is used to express that something happened, took place,
or was finished at some time in the past.
“Always used with the past time markers such
as: yesterday (yesterday morning, yesterday afternoon, yesterday evening, last
Sunday, last week, last month, last year, ago, a week ago, two days ago, three
weeks ago, four months ago, five years ago, the day before yesterday).”
We use the simple past tense when the time is definite.
The rules for making the simple past tense of
regular verbs are :
a. Add –ed
to the most of the verbs:
eg. Ask
-asked
Stay - stayed
Answer -answered
b. Add –d
if the verbs end in-e
eg. Arrive
-arrived
change - changed
c. Add –ed
if verbs end in a consonant+y. change the y to –i
and then add –ed
eg. Study
-studied
cry -cried
d. For some verbs, add –ed if the verbs end in one vowel+one consonant, then repeat the
consonant then add –ed.
eg. Stop
-stopped
This is the simple past tense of the verb “go”
:
I/we/you/they/he/she/it-
went
Did
–I/we/they/he/she/it-go? Yes, I did. No, I did not.
But there are some verbs that are irregular.
We call these verbs irregular verbs :
eg. Buy-bought
come-came
drink-drank, etc
PRESENT
PERFECT TENSE
The present perfect
is a grammatical combination of the present tense and the perfect aspect, used
to express a past event that has present consequences.
It is made with have/has + verbs in the Past Participle form.
I/we/they/you/
+ have + verb –in the past participle form.
He/she/it
+ has + verb –in the past participle form.
eg.
I have lived in Bandung for ten years.
The use of the present perfect tense :
1.
The Present
Perfect Tense is used to show that an
action has been completed before the present time. This action has an effect on
the present situation.
eg. I have turned on the light.
I
have opened a letter.
She
has just returned from school.
Sarah have been out for lunch
Dick has lost his key
2.
The Present
Perfect Tense is used to show that an
activity or a state that has continued for a period of time from a point in the
past until the present. The action is not completed; it is still continuing up
to the present.
eg. I have lived in Java for fifty
years.
Peter has worked for Astra Internasional since 1998.
Sam
has lived in Bandung all his life.
3.
The Present Perfect Tense is used when we talk about a period of time
that continues up to the present.
eg. Mr. Simon has smoked ten cigarettes today.
Well, that`s all. What do you think?
Is this easy or difficult? Yeah, we know that this is more difficult rather
than simple past tense, but there are still more tenses which are have more
difficult level rather than this. And, I hope this post can help you to learn
about the past tense and also the present perfect tense. I`ll show another
later! Thank You, and see yaaa!
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