2.2 Related Study
In order to support the ideas of the analysis, I had consulted some references consist of a thesis written by a student of English Department and some linguistics
and grammar books which are related to the topic of this thesis. George E.Wishon 1980: 195 says: Simple Past Tense is used to report a state
or activity which can be described to definite Past Time or past adverbial is either expressed or else understood from the context in which the Past Tense is used.”
W.P Lehman 1927:20 cites: “In using the comparative method, we contrast forms of two or more related languages to determine their precise relationship.
We indicate this relationship most simply by constructing the form which they develop.”
Lubis, Nursauli 2002 entitled “A Comparative Analysis between English and German Prepositions”. She applied the library research method to analyze the
data. She concluded that English and German prepositions have the same form for plural, masculine and feminine nouns, English and German are partly
correspondence, in types of prepositions and position of prepositions and English has compound complex and marginal prepositions, while German does not.
Hartini, Sri 2006 entitled “A Comparative Analysis between English and French Articles”. She applied the comparative method to analyze the data. She concluded
that based on the type of the articles, both of the languages are partly correspondence, based on the form, the articles of both languages are non-
correspondence, based on the position of both languages are correspondence, and based on the function, the articles of both languages are correspondence.
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Siahaan, Frida 2002 entitled “A Comparative Study on English and German Simple Past Tense”. The writer of this thesis used library research to analyze the
data. She concluded that English language to form a sentence in the past tense form, there is no changing verbs to each subjects, otherwise in German language
the verbs will be conjugated and changed. It determined by the subjects. In English the formation of verbs in simple past tense form, consist of two ways,
while in German the formation of the verbs in Praterium form consist of three ways.
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2.3 The Description of Simple Past Tense and Past Continuous Tense
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