Nota penuh: 3.2 Simple Past Tense
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Apa itu Simple Past?
- Simple past untuk perkara yang DAH BERLAKU dan selesai ⏮️
- Contoh: *"I played football yesterday."* / *"She visited her aunt last week."* 📅
- Kata kunci: yesterday, last week, last year, ago, just now 🕐
Present (sekarang/selalu)
- I play now.
- every day, always
Past (dah lepas)
- I played yesterday.
- yesterday, last week, ago
- *"They watched a movie last night."* — dah tengok, dah habis 🎬
Tip Power! Nampak "yesterday", "last..." atau "...ago"? Terus fikir simple PAST. Ubah verb kepada bentuk lepas!
Regular Verbs (+ed)
- Regular verb: tambah -ed untuk jadikan past 🔨
- Contoh: *play → played, walk → walked, jump → jumped* ✅
- Peraturan ejaan -ed: Tamat -e → tambah -d je (like → liked)Konsonan + y → -ied (study → studied)Vokal-konsonan pendek → gandakan (stop → stopped)
- Bezanya dengan present: *"I cook"* (sekarang) vs *"I cooked"* (semalam) 🍳
- Best part: regular verb TAK peduli subjek — I, he, they semua guna bentuk sama! 🎉
- Eh, tahu tak? Untuk past tense, kita TAK payah risau pasal he/she/it tambah -s lagi. "I walked", "She walked", "They walked" — semuanya sama! Past tense lebih senang.
Cara ingat: Past yang 'baik' (regular) cuma nak satu benda: -ed di hujung. Walk→walked, cook→cooked. Senang!
Irregular Verbs (bentuk pelik)
- Irregular verb: tak ikut -ed, bentuk berubah sendiri — kena HAFAL 🧠
- go → went
- I went to the market.
- eat → ate
- She ate rice.
- see → saw
- We saw a bird.
- have → had
- They had lunch.
- Lagi contoh: *run → ran, come → came, buy → bought, take → took* 📝
- Silap klasik: *"I goed"* ❌ → *"I went"* ✅ (go tu irregular!)
- Silap klasik: *"He eated"* ❌ → *"He ate"* ✅
- Eh, tahu tak? Verb "read" ejaan sama untuk present dan past (read → read), tapi SEBUTAN berubah: present "reed", past "red". Mata sama, telinga beza!
Tip Power! Silap klasik campur dua: "I didn't went" ❌. Selepas "did/didn't", verb balik BIASA → "I didn't go" ✅. "did" dah pegang past!