ACTIVE AND PASSIVE SENTENCE PRESENT FORM:
1.
PRESENT
CONTINUOUS is used to
express some action that are going in the time of speaking or processing and
when you talk about change. Time signal/Adverb of time: right now, now, this evening, this week, today, and tonight.
Examples:
a) He is coming for my garden party tonight.
b) Now, I am listening music.
c) Uncle and aunty are not coming to Bogor this week.
2. PRESENT SIMPLE is used to habitual action/repeated action, general statement, and
general thruth. We can use: always,
usually, sometimes, often, seldom, rarely, and never.
Examples:
a) She always makes me laugh.
b) Nurses look after patients in the hospital
c) Do you feel same with me?
3.
PRESENT
PERFECT is used to say that an
action happened at an unspecified time before now. We can use with unspecific
expressions such as: never, ever, once,
many times, several times, before, already, so far, yet.
Examples:
a) I think I have met him once before.
b) She has called you three times.
c) I have studied at Gunadarma since September.
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE SENTENCE PAST FORM:
1. PAST CONTINUOUS is most often used for actions happening at some time in the past.
Examples:
a) At this time last week I was lying on the beach in Cilacap.
b) My mother was cooking in the kitchen.
c) What were you doing at 8 o’clock yesterday?
2.
PAST SIMPLE is used to talk about a completed action in a time
before now. Duration is not important. The time of the action can be in the
recent past or the distant past.
Examples:
a) We went to Cilacap last year.
b) I was sad last night.
c) We gave many chocolate for her birthday.
3.
PAST PERFECT
is used make it clear that one event happened before another in the past. It is
does not matter which event is mentioned first the tense makes it clear which
one happened first.
Examples:
a) I had locked the door before I left my home.
b) I didn’t know who he was. I had never seen him before.
c) I was late, the train had left.
