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In addition Geoffrey leech stated in his book “Meaning and the English Verb Third E dition” said: “The Simple Past Tense shows the happening takes place before the present moment. This means that the present moment is excluded. …. With the past tense, the difference between „state’ and „event’ is less important than it is with The Present Tense. In fact, as The Past Tense normally applies only to completed happenings, everything it refers to is in a sense an „event’, an episode seen as a complete entity” 3 According to A. J. Thomson and A. V. Martinet, “The Simple Past Tense in regular verbs is formed by adding -ed to the infinitive, verbs ending in -e add -d only, the negative of regular and irregular verbs is formed with did not didn’t and the infinitive, the interrogative of regular and irregular verbs is formed with did + subject + infinitive”. 4 It can be said that the Simple Past Tense is formed by adding –d-ed for regular verbs and for irregular verbs there is no rule on it and must be learned and mastered by the students. Meanwhile, Swan in his book Practical English Usage defines, “The Simple Past Tense is the one most often used to talk about the past. It can be refer to short, quickly finished actions and events, to longer actions and situations, and to repeated happening s.” 5 The Simple Past is used to express the idea that an action started and finished at specific time in the past. Sometimes, the speaker may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have one specific time in mind. From the several statements above, we can take the conclusion that the Simple Past Tense used to express a definite event in the past. Simple Past Tense also used if the event happened completely in the past and time period has finished. 3 Geoffrey Leech, Meaning and the English Verb Third Edition, Great Britain: Pearson Education Ltd., 2004, p. 13 4 A. J. Thomson and A. V. Martinet, A Practical English Grammar, New York: Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 161 5 Michael Swan, Practical English Usage, New York: Oxford University Press, 1980, p. 469

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