Soal Past Perfect Tense
Pengertian Past Perfect Tense
Past perfect tense adalah suatu bentuk kata kerja yang digunakan untuk menyatakan bahwa suatu aksi telah selesai pada suatu titik di masa lalu sebelum aksi lainnya terjadi.
Rumus Past Perfect Tense
Past perfect tense dibentuk dengan auxiliary verb “had”, dan past participle (verb-3). Had digunakan baik untuk singular maupun plural subject. Sedangkan past participle dibentuk dengan menambahkan -ed, -en, -d, -t, -n, atau -ne pada base form berupa regular verb. Pada base form berupa irregular verb, bentuk past participle tidak konsisten.
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rumus past perfect tense
Berikut rumus past perfect tense untuk kalimat positif, negatif, dan interogatif.
Rumus Past Perfect Tense | Contoh Past Perfect Tense |
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kalimat positif (+):S + had + past participle (V-3) |
My brother had slept |
They had come | |
kalimat negatif (-):S + had + not + past participle (V-3) |
My brother hadn’t slept |
They hadn’t come | |
kalimat interogatif (?):had + S + past participle (V-3) |
Had my brother slept |
Had they come |
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Fungsi dan Contoh Kalimat Past Perfect Tense
- Past perfect tense untuk mengekspresikan aksi di masa lampau yang telah selesai terjadi sebelum past event lainnya. Subordinate conjunction yang dapat digunakan antara lain:
- after (simple past tense + after + past perfect tense)
- before, by the time, when (past perfect tense + before / by the time / when + simple past tense)
Selain subordinate conjunction, dapat juga digunakan preposition prior to dan before (sebelum) yang merupakan sinonim.
Contoh Kalimat Past Perfect Tense
- When he came last night, the cake had run out.
(Ketika dia datang semalam, kue sudah habis.) - The student had gotten a verbal warning before his parents were called.
(Siswa tersebut telah mendapat peringatan verbal sebelum orangtuanya ditelepon.) - I had already eaten breakfast by the time he picked me up.
(Saya telah sarapan ketika dia menjemput.) - Prior to the proclamation, Indonesia had been colonized by Japan for 3 years.
(Sebelum proklamasi, Indonesia telah dijajah Jepang selama 3 tahun.)
- Past perfect tense untuk menunjukkan seberapa sering sesuatu terjadi di masa lampau. Time expression (keterangan waktu) yang sering digunakan yaitu frasa adverbial of frequency. Berikut beberapa contohnya.
- twice / two times / three times + before + simple past tense / participle (phrase): twice before getting married (dua kali sebelum menikah), two times before they got married (dua kali sebelum mereka menikah), three times before I read his review (tiga kali sebelum saya membaca tinjauannya)
- every day / every two days / every other day until 2012 (setiap hari / setiap dua hari sampai tahun 2012)
- every summer until 2000 (setiap musim panas hingga tahun 2000)
Contoh Kalimat Past Perfect Tense
- I had read the book three times before I read his review.
(Saya telah membaca buku itu tiga kali sebelum saya membaca ulasannya.) - They had met twice before married.
(Mereka bertemu dua kali sebelum menikah.) - Yulia had been to the gym every two days until 2012.
(Yulia telah pergi ke gym setiap dua hari sampai tahun 2012.)
- Past perfect tense digunakan pada reported speech setelah verb
- said
- told
- asked
- thought
- wondered
Contoh Kalimat Past Perfect Tense
- He said that he had listened carefully the instruction.
(Dia mengatakan bahwa dia telah mendengarkan instruksi dengan penuh perhatian.) - I thought he had changed to be better man.
(Saya pikir dia telah berubah menjadi pria yang lebih baik.)
- Past perfect tense untuk mengekspresikan harapan atau impian yang tidak kesampaian melalui conditional sentence tipe 3.
Rumus conditional sentence tipe 3:
if + past perfect tense + would/should/could/might + have + past participle
Contoh Kalimat Past Perfect Tense
- If you had remembered to invite me, I would have attended your party.
(Jika kamu ingat mengundang saya, saya akan hadir di pestamu.) - Rina would have been the same level with me if she had studied harder.
(Rina akan berasa pada level yang sama dengan saya jika dia belajar lebih keras.)
- If you had remembered to invite me, I would have attended your party.
Soal Past Perfect Tense
Related Posts:
- Passive Voice – Past Perfect Tense
- Simple Past vs. Past Perfect Tense
- Past Perfect vs. Past Perfect Continuous Tense
- Soal Passive – Past Perfect Tense
- Soal Yes-No Question Past Perfect
- Soal Wh- Question Past Perfect
- Soal Tenses
References:
- Past Perfect Tense. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/tenses/past_perfect.htm. Accessed on October 9, 2018.
- The Past Perfect Tense. http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/pastperf.htm. Accessed on November 16, 2013.
- Sequence of Tenses. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/601/01/. Accessed on February 22, 2013.
- After, Before, When. http://esl.about.com/od/Intermediate_Verb_Resource/a/Time-Expressions-After-Before-When.htm. Accessed on February 22, 2013.
Makasih banyak koreksinya Juheri. 🙂 Tolong dimaafkan ya kesalahan konyolnya.
Rina would been the same level with me if she had studied harder.
(Rina akan berasa pada level yang sama dengan saya jika dia belajar lebih keras.)
bukankah menjadi “Rina would have been”
You’re welcome 🙂
Thanks