This document provides information about the simple past tense in English. It defines the simple past tense as the tense used to describe actions and events that happened in the past. It lists examples of forms like "S + V2 + O" and discusses active and passive voice. It also provides examples of using the simple past tense in sentences and a dialogue.

1. SIMPLE PAST
TENSE
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2. MEANING
 Simple Past Tense
 Tense that used for showing the activities and occasions that happened in
the past.

3. FORMULAE
 Active : ( + ) S + V II + O + Comp
( - ) S + did not + V I + O + Comp
( ? ) Did + S + V I + O + Comp ?
 Passive : ( + ) S + was/were + V III + O + Comp
( - ) S + was/were not + V III + O + Comp
( ? ) Was/were + S + V III + O + Comp ?

4. EXPLANATION
 There are 2 kinds of subjection in the Simple Past Tense :
 Subject as the doer (for active form)
 Subject as the receiver (for passive form)
 There are 2 to-bes in the Simple Past Tense for the passive form :
 Was  I, She, He, It, & Singular Pronoun
 Were  You, We, They, & Plural Pronoun

5. EXPLANATION
 There are 2 complements in the Simple Past Tense :
 Complements of place (School, house, beach, etc)
 Complements of time (yesterday, last week, 2 months ago, etc)

6. EXAMPLES (SENTENCE)
(She) do (it)
 Active : ( + ) She did it in her house yesterday
( - ) She did not do in in her house yesterday
( ? ) Did she do it in her house yesterday ?
 Passive : ( + ) It was done by her in her house yesterday
( - ) It was not done by her in her house yesterday
( ? ) Was it done by her in her house yesterday ?

7. EXAMPLE (DIALOGUE)

8. Hey Patrick, I called you
yesterday, but there was no
one answered. Where did you
go ?

9. Hey Spongebob. I went to
the beach with my big
family.

10. Wow, that must be so
exciting. What did you do
?

11. We swam, played with the
sand, and ate the barbeque

12. Wow, that sounds
great!

13. THANK YOU FOR
YOUR KIND ATTENTION