The simple past tense is used to describe occurrences that happened in the past. It is formed using the past tense of verbs. There are three forms - positive, negative, and interrogative. The positive form uses "was/were" as the helping verb. The negative form uses "was/were not" or "did not." And the interrogative form uses "did" and ends in a question mark. An example is provided where the writer discusses being a student 5 years ago, having a close friend named Rani who lived in Bandung at that time.

1. SIMPLE PAST TENSE
By : Novan Arianto B
IV C English
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2. • Simple Past Tense is using to showing
occurrence that happened when ago.
• Simple past tense using the past tense.

3. • Formula
• Positif (+)
- Subject + to be (was/were) + complement
- Subject + verb 2 + object
Negatif (-)
- Subject + to be (was/were) + not + complement
- Subject + did not + verb 1 + object
Tanya (?)
- Did + subject + verb 1 + object ?

4. • Example :
• - He was a businessman in 1999 (+)
- She did not visit me yesterday (-)
- Did you play football yesterday ? (?)

5. I was a student of Elementary school 5 years
ago. I studied in Elementary School 2 Totomulyo.
My school was not too far from my house. I went
to school on foot. At the time, I had a friend, her
name was Rani. Rani was my close friend 5 years
ago. She lived in Bandung 5 years ago.

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