step 4 (Mastering Simple Past Tense)

 

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Let’s scream together

“English, Yes we like it, Yes we do really love it”

     Thanks for screaming. I could hear that you screamed so loud. With a great spirit and a sweet smile. Really wonderful of you! Well, not bored right to meet me? Yep, because here we are studying and enjoying English so much. Anyway, have you practiced all English knowledge which you got in this blog? I wish you have. As you are a master of Simple Present Tense, this is not fair if you don’t be a master of Simple Past Tense. Do agree with me? Yeah, you must! Because you are in my blog, haha lol. No, no, just kidding. Well guys, you and I are here is not for playing but for enjoying our material today. You have to know what you have to do then. Hmmm, yep you are right! Smiling . . . ^_^

     You know one key in this world that can make all knowledge enter to our mind? Actually this is a big secret but I am here is for tell you everything that I have because all knowledge are not belonging to me but belonging to our Lord and our duty here is to share all we have to other persons. Well, this key is happiness. When you want to go to the school or to your tutorial or wherever, what you need is bring all your happiness. Use your happiness to catch all knowledge. This is not your obligation to believe in me but this is not wrong for you to try. So, making a good face with smiling then you can get happiness while you study. Hmmm, as far as now you will be a master of Simple Past Tense. Are you ready? You must!

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     Well, I want to ask you one thing. “Oh no! Nurdayaningtyas is becoming a killer teacher on her blog!” Okay, you can thing about this statement. But as you know I will give everything here, so what you need to think is guess me every good things. Haha, lol. My master friends of Simple Past Tense, please I want to see your great spirit today. Could you say “English is fun”! Yep, thanks for saying it lovely friends. Trying to remember that Simple Past Tense is about a tense which shows the event that happened a while ago or in the past time. Be spirit, be happy, because we will be get double master. Then, please smile ^_^

1. Simple Past Tense 

   Is one of three simple tenses which shows the event that happened a while ago or in the past time 

   Subject + Verb 2 + Object 

   To be of tense for Simple Past Tense: was and were are used for showing noun and/ adjective, interrogative (was and were are ‘to be’ too in a past context), & WH-Question & did is used for negative statement, interrogative, & WH-Question 

   Eg: Fillia studied Statistics 5 years ago but she did not understand at all. What happened with Fillia? The answer was that she did not study hard.

2. Past Continuous Tense

   Subject + to be + Infinitive + -ing + Object 

   To be of tense for Past Continuous Tense: was and were are used for positive and negative statement, interrogative, & WH-Question 

   Is one of kinds of Simple Past Tense which shows the event that was happening in the past time 

   Eg: my father was sailing in the Saturday night and he was not being together with us at that time. 

   Is one of kinds of Simple Past Tense which shows the event that was happening and followed  by the other event 

   Eg: Tina, Angeli, and Rahul were singing together when the other artists and actors had lunch. And Angeli was singing happily when her phone rang. 

   Is one of kinds of Simple Past Tense which shows two events that were happening in the same time, in the past time 

   Eg: Geri’s father was watching the TV at 11:00 PM last night while the others were sleeping and then he was not recognizing the time while the clock was showing at 11:30 PM

3. Past Perfect Tense 

   Is one kinds of Simple Past Tense which shows the event that had happened in the past time and this tense can be two events that followed by the other event 

   Subject + to be + Verb 3 + Object 

   To be of tense for Past Perfect Tense: had is used for positive and negative statement, interrogative, & WH-Question 

   Eg: I had homework. Michael said that he had wanted me to do his. But when Michael had asked that to me, I said no.

4. Past Perfect Continuous Tense 

   Is one of kinds of Simple Past Tense which shows the event that had happened and had been doing in the past time and this tense can be two events that followed by other event 

   Subject + to be + been + Infinitive + -ing + Object 

   To be of tense for Past Perfect Tense: had is used for positive and negative statement, interrogative, & WH-Question 

   Eg: Imron guessed that he had been doing his job very well. Why had been he been guessing like that?

     Yahoo, we have reached till this step. Step six. Wow, means that you have got two masters, they are master of Simple Present Tense and Simple Past Tense. How great you are. Lovely friend, I am so sorry the time is up. Huuuft, but we shall never stops to learn everything in this world. Well, because English is always fun, we shall meet in another day to be a master of  . . . (keep your smile ^_^)

step 3 (Mastering Simple Present Tense)

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Let’s scream together

“English, Yes we like it, Yes we do really love it”

     Welcome to the step 5. Hmmm, you are in the step 5, this means that you are a master. But you need to be a good master in English. Are you still spirit? Sure, I see it. With a big spirit we shall get what we want. Don’t forget to pray to Lord for his mercies and bounties then we ease to get much knowledge. Guys, thank you until nowadays you are still in this blog to catch Lord’s knowledge. We shall always learn together. It’s okay if you find the mistakes here, you can tell me. Well my lovely friends, no smile no material. So what should you do? Yeah, smile please . . . ^_^ You look so handsome and beautiful.

     I know you have mastered three simple tenses. This is very good. But you need to more master each of three simple tenses. No, no, it’s not too difficult. All you need to do is master every each of them. I am here trying to make all things become as simple as possible. Wow, nice to see your smile. You cheerful and so do I. Now, I want to call you a master of Simple Present Tense. And in your mind now is about Simple Present Tense, isn’t it? Don’t worry! This is not difficult as you think. Even this is very easy. Sure, believe in me!

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     As we still remember in our mind that Simple Present Tense is about a tense which shows the event that usually and/ often happens every time and factual. I do believe that you have memorized the formula of Simple Present Tense. What I don’t know yet is whether you practice it in speaking or not, but I wish you will use all knowledge that you have got in your daily routine. Guys, to master Simple Present Tense is very easy. This will lead you to ease for speaking in English by using Present time. Don’t need to be confused when you want to express the event in present time. Then please smile for once again ^_^

1. Simple Present Tense 

   Is one of three simple tenses which shows the event that usually and/ often happens every time and factual 

   Subject + Infinitive (s/es for she/he/it) + Object 

   To be of tense for Simple Present Tense: do and does are used for negative statement, interrogative and WH-Question 

   Adverb of time   : 

   • Always   : 

   always in Indonesia is selalu 

   Eg: we always buy vegetables every week 

   • Usually   : 

   usually in Indonesia is biasanya 

   Eg: my grandfather usually jogs in the morning 

   • Sometimes   : 

   sometimes in Indonesia is kadang-kadang 

   Eg: Rangga and Puji sometimes fight each other 

   • Often   : 

   often in Indonesia is sering 

   Eg: the farmers often go to the field in the night 

   • Seldom   : 

   seldom in Indonesia is jarang 

   Eg:John’s wife seldom drinks milk 

   • Never   : 

   never in Indonesia is tidak pernah 

   Eg: Gilang does not never visit Borobudur every weekendEg:Oki is a cheerful kid. He always does what his mother says. Every day he goes to the school with his Mother. What does he do before entering the class? He kissed his mother. He likes his mother’s cuisine. It is gudeg, gudeg is a Javanese food.

2. Present Continuous Tense 

   Is one of kinds of Present Tenses which shows the event that is happening when the speech is going to be right now 

   Subject + to be + Infinitive + -ing + Object 

   To be of tense for Present Continuous Tense: am, is and are are used for showing noun and/ adjective and interrogative (am, is, and are are ‘to be’ too in a present context) and these are used for positive and negative statement, interrogative and WH-Question 

   Eg: Ms. Nurdayaningtyas is teaching English today but she is not giving homework to her students. She is a good teacher. But are Nudayaningtyas’ students loving her? Sure, they are.

3. Present Perfect Tense 

   Is one of kinds of Present Tense which shows the event that has happened in this present time but it does not recognized when it happens surely 

   Subject + to be + Verb 3 + Object 

   To be of tense for Present Perfect Tense: has (for she/he it) and have (I, you, they and we) are used for positive and negative statement, interrogative and WH-QuestionAdverb of time: 

   • Already    : 

   alreadyin Indonesia is sudah 

   Eg: Tina’s boyfriend has already stopped smoking 

   • Just   : 

   just in Indonesia is baru saja 

   Eg: my uncle has just arrived Yogyakarta airport 

   • Ever   : 

   ever in Indonesia is pernah 

   Eg: the students have ever read this book before 

   • Never   : 

   never in Indonesia is tidak pernah 

   Eg: Angelina has never met her father 

   • Since   : 

   since in Indonesia is sejak 

   Eg: this family had left the house since yesterday 

   • For   : 

   for in Indonesia is selama 

   Eg: I have lived in London for one year 

   Eg: Indra’s boyfriend has arrived in Palembang harbour and Indra has waited for Popi since 1 PM. How long has Popi been in the ship? Because Indra has sat on the chair for 2 hours.

4. Present Perfect Continuous Tense 

Is one of kinds of Present Tense which shows the event that has happened in this present time and has been doing 

Subject + to be + been + Infinitive + -ing + Object 

To be of tense for Present Perfect Tense: has (for she/he it) and have (I, you, they and we) are used for positive and negative statement, interrogative and WH-Question 

Eg: what has my mom been doing since this week? Has she been getting well? Rina says alone to herself. She has not been meeting her mother for 3 years since she lives in Bali.

     Hello Master friends of Simple Present Tense. I see you are holding your mouse and want to click more at the bottom to read any letters again. This is really fun to study English together with you all my Master friends of Simple Present Tense. Not too many requirements for becoming A Master of Simple Present Tense. What are you going to do is understand four elements of Present Tense then all are going to be easy as you wish. Any questions so far? If you have any questions to ask, just leave your comment under this precious knowledge today. Hmmm, I always see your smile. Thank you. Yep, studying together, smiling together, because English is fun . . . ^_^

step 2 (Three Simple Tenses)

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Let’s scream together

“English, Yes we like it, Yes we do really love it”

     Hmmm, meet me again. How are you doing my lovely friends? I am happy to see your smile. You seem you are ready to learn English today. Don’t be bored because our lesson today is going to be more interesting.

     Guys, sometimes you want to try to speak in English to your friend for improving your speaking skill but you are confused about your grammar or maybe you are shy to speak in English. Why should you be confused or shy? Why do you get confusion? Because you don’t master the simple tenses yet. Why do you get shyness? Because English is not your national language and you think all people will guess that you are conceited (the condition in Indonesia). That is not important for you to think. What you need is English, so if you want to get what you need you have to do everything because your need brings you to be better for future.

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     I am here for studying together with you and I am going to tell you about precious knowledge. But before telling you this precious knowledge, there is one requirement for you to fill it in order to get the knowledge. Ooo please don’t be angry! The requirement is not very difficult. Do you know what it is? Just give your sweet smile to me then I will give everything to you. Smile please . . . ^_^

     Lovely friends, as we know that all tenses are sixteen. And you have a fear to continue your English to learn. Sixteen tenses with many problems, Oh NO! Well, well, well, I am here to help you for making all things become easier and easier. What you have to do is stay here in my blog and smile when you read every single sentence. Very easy, very simple. Now, I give some instructions.

• Close your eyes                

• Try to think there are no sixteen tenses right now

• Include in your mind, only three tenses in this world to learn

• Only three tenses

• Be quite for a while

• Open your eyes

• Say “I am ready to study three tenses”!

     Good job guys. Thanks for doing the instructions. I will not force you to learn more with me but I am pretty sure you are readier than some steps before. Yahoo! I see your smile. There are only three tenses in this world, who does say it? Nurdayaningtyas says it. Do you believe in her? Yeah, you must! This trick will bring you to the easy way to master English. Well lovely friends, I am going to tell you. Please look at this!

                        Past time     ->     Present time     ->     Future time

     What you should do is understand this chart. Only simple chart. From this chart you have to know there are only three times, they are past time, present time and future time. So, is Nurdayaningtyas right? Yes, she is. From three times, means three tenses. Very easy, really. So please, understand what I am going to write but you don’t need to memorize. Just see, understand and practice them when you speak to your friends.

1. Simple Present Tense 

   Is one of three simple tenses which shows the event that usually and/ often happens every time and factual 

   Subject + Infinitive (s/es for she/he/it) + Object 

   To be of tense for Simple Present Tense: do and does are used for negative statement and interrogative 

   Eg: I always play a guitar after coming back from school but my sister does her homework directly. My mom does not work, she stays at home. My daddy works at his office from Monday till Friday. My daddy spends his time together with us every Saturday and Sunday. My Parents always ask my sister and me “where do you like to go this weekend?” 

2. Simple Past Tense 

   Is one of three simple tenses which shows the event that happened a while ago or in the past time 

   Subject + Verb 2 + Object 

   To be of tense for Simple Past Tense: was and were are used for showing noun and/ adjective and interrogative (was and were are ‘to be’ too in a past context) & did is used for negative statement and interrogative 

   Eg: Tono had a holiday 2 weeks ago with his family. When he wanted to come back to Yogyakarta, he did not be able to walk because he got sprain. His mother-in-law asked “why did not you be careful?” 

3. Simple Future Tense 

   Is one of three simple tenses which shows the event that will happen and will do 

   Subject + to be + Infinitive + Object 

   To be of tense for Simple Future Tense: will and shall are used for positive statement, negative statement and interrogative 

   Eg: Linda and Paijo will go to the Bali next month. They will do their work in Bali. They will visit Bangka Belitung Island after finishing their work. But they are confused, how long will they stay in Bangka Belitung Island?

     Hello guys! Wow, you are very spirit, as same with me. If you want to talk to your friend in a simple sentence, don’t be confused. You only need to use these three simple tenses. Simple Present Tense, Simple Past Tense and Simple Future Tense. Well, I have an information to you. Here you can get ‘to be’ of tense of these simple tenses are: do, does, was, were, did, will, and shall. Hmmm, don’t need to memorize it. Just what? Just understand and practice it when you speak. Okay my lovely friends, the lesson is over. Yaaaah, Huuuuuuft! Well, well, we will meet again in an interesting material later on. Let smile together ^_^ because English is fun.

step 1 (To Be)

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Let’s scream together

“English, Yes we like it, Yes we do really love it”

     Happy day Indonesia and all my lovely friends! What are your activities today? I thank you that you have spent your time to read my blog. I appreciate it so much, means that you want to learn English with your great spirit. Thumbs up for you!

     Hmmm, perhaps you are eating food and looking at your laptop screen right now. But you are confused or don’t know how to show the things or something around you in English. It is very easy, believe me! There are so many things we can see, we can touch, but how to say it in English? Here is the answer.

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     This is called ‘to be.’ What is to be? I am going to explain to you. ‘To be’ is a formula to complete the simple sentence in order to make it in a good sentence with good structure. The next question is: what are the things that include in ‘to be’? Well, I will let you know.

The kinds of ‘to be’ are:

1. Am : 

   is a to be that showed a noun and an adjective for ourselves (human) in a single and present context 

   Eg: I am a doctor 

2. Is : 

   is a to be that showed a noun and an adjective for other people and for a thing in a single and present context 

   Eg: that is pen 

3. Are :   

   is a to be that showed a noun or an adjective for other people and for the things in a plural and present context 

   Eg: those girls are beautiful 

4. Was :   

   is a to be that showed a noun or an adjective for ourselves (human) and for a thing in a single and past context 

   Eg: She was a beautiful queen 

5. Were :   

   is a to be that showed a noun or an adjective for other people and for the things in a plural and past context 

   Eg: they were good students

     Now, you can express the things around you with good English. Hmmm, I am going to give you an illustration to make you more understand.

Toni was in his room and studying Mathematics. Suddenly, his brother came and said something.

Joko     : What is on your bed?

Toni      : That is my pen. What happens?

Joko     : No, that is mine. Please, don’t cheat!

Toni      : No, I am not cheating you. It is mine! Ooo please!

You can see that these two sibling wanted to show the pen is their alone, not others. Here you can determine that the ‘to be’ here is using ‘is’ for a single and present context. Why single? Because the pen is only one. Why present? Because this is the conversation which uses present form. So easy right? Well, English is fun, isn’t it? I ask you again, smile please . . . ^_^ The time is up. See you later lovely friend.

intro 2 (What Part do We Begin to Learn English?)

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Let’s scream together

“English, Yes we like it, Yes we do really love it”

     Nice to meet you in the step 2. We are still talking about English. Wow, you look so interesting. This is going to be good. Hope we can catch every single word, ameen.

     Guys, perhaps we are confused from what we shall begin our material to learn English. Is it from structure or grammar, from vocabulary, reading text book, listening, or other kinds of English part? Don’t be confused! I shall give an illustration.

A baby who was born to the world, s/he was nothing. All of what s/he needed was always helped by her/his parents. Till one day, s/he for the first time tried to do something in her/his life. Do you know what was it? A baby tried to follow what her/his parent spoke to each other. You can see around you, a baby said “momma, momma!”

     Yep, you get that point. To learn language for the first time, we should learn the words or more specific is the vocabularies. After you master some of vocabularies in language which you learn, then you will understand to practice it with its grammar. Well, not too difficult right? Before focusing our material in the step 2, let us smile . . . ^_^

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     Hmmm, do you need a dictionary? Sure, because you learn foreign language. I suggest you not to use electric dictionary. We can find many expensive dictionaries that you can buy. But do you know the best dictionary to learn? “Oxford Dictionary” If you want to get maximal, you should use this dictionary. Actually the words or vocabularies, you can seek them by yourself, this is impossible for me to tell you all words here, so much. Perhaps, you go somewhere and you bring a dictionary and you see a thing around you which makes you curious of it. Eg, it is ‘cabang pohong’ therefore you look for it in the dictionary, it is called ‘branch.’ Wahoo! You have got one word. Then what will you do later on? Yep, try to memorize it and use it in a sentence when you speak to other people!

     Lovely friends, now I am going to tell you kinds of words and phrases. There are eight kinds of words and five kinds of phrases in English. What are they? Let me tell you

Eight classes of words:

1. Verb (v/V)   : 

    verb in Indonesia is kata kerja 

   Eg: decide, tie, surrender, cry, etc

2. Noun (N)   : 

   noun in Indonesia is kata benda 

   Eg: balloon, pestle, traffic sign, book, etc

3. Adjective (Aj)   :   

   adjective in Indonesia is kata sifat 

   Eg: beautiful, hectic, noisy, clever, etc

4. Adverb (Av)   : 

   adverb in Indonesia is kata keterangan 

   Eg: badly, easily, often, soon, etc

5. Determiner (d)   : 

    determiner in Indonesia is penentu 

   Eg: a, very, the, my, this, etc

6. Pronoun (Pn)   : 

   pronoun in Indonesia is kata ganti 

   Eg: something, its, you, him, etc

7. Conjunction (Cj)   : 

   conjunction in Indonesia is kata sambung 

   Eg: because, therefore, if, but, etc

8. Preposition (p)   : 

preposition in Indonesia is kata depan 

Eg: for, with, by, at, etc

     And if you say the word, so you will know what kinds of word that you say. Don’t need to memorize these word classes, just try to understand it. Well, I will let you know the classes of phrases. But I want to ask you first, do you know what phrase mean? Phrase is the words which consists more than one word but phrase is not a sentence. Again, I will ask you to smile. Let’s smile . . . ^_^

Five classes of phrases:

1. A verb phrase (VP)   : 

   is the words which takes from verb and followed or modified by auxiliary or more auxiliaries in front of the ordinary verb 

   Eg: don’t know 

   Explanation: know here is a head that modified by don’t. Don’t here is an auxiliary as a modifier. It is meant that a person who said ‘don’t know’ is s/he wanted to tell that s/he really don’t know

2. A noun phrase (NP)   :  

   is the words which takes from the noun and followed or modified by determiner and/ adjective in front of the noun 

   Eg: an interesting game 

   Explanation: an here is a noun adjunct, means that an becomes an adjective here. Interesting here is an adjective that modified games because game is a head. It is meant that there is a game which is very interesting. Here the writer mostly wants to tell about the game

3. An adjective phrase (AjP)   :  

   is the words which takes from the adjective and followed or modified by adverb in front of the adjective 

   Eg: most greedy 

   Explanation: most here is an adverb and greedy here is an adjective as a head. Most is as modifier of greedy. So that we can see that the writer wants us to know s/he mostly wants to tell about greedy

4. An adverb phrase (AvP)   : 

   is the words which takes from the adverb and followed or modified by adverb in front of the adverb 

   Eg: very beautifully 

   Explanation: very and beautifully are an adverb but very here is as modifier of beautifully and beautifully is as a head. So that, we are as a reader have to be able to catch that the writer mostly wants to tell about beautifully

5. A prepositional phrase (PP)   : 

   is the words which takes from the prepositional and follows or modifies a noun phrase 

   Eg: for a long week 

   Explanation: a long week, as we know it is a noun phrase where week is as head of a (is a noun adjunct then becomes adjective) and long (is an adjective). A long week is followed or modified by for and for is as modifier of a long week. Here we can get the point that is the writer mostly wants to tell about week, that the week is very long.

     Hmmm, I guess you read with your big spirit. Is this interesting, isn’t this? Yahoo, I am so happy because our material or lesson is very nice. Very easy, very simple. Well, but I have to stop our lesson. Don’t worry, we will face again in another time. Just say for the last time, English is fun. ^_^