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Simple Present Tense Vs Past

Here are the translations of the sentences with verbs filled in: 1. Korea memproduksi pemutar MP3 pertama pada tahun 1998. 2. Kebanyakan laptop sekarang menggunakan baterai berbasis litium. 3. Dimensi layar laptop menentukan seberapa besar mesin itu sendiri akan menjadi. 4. Jumlah piksel memberitahu resolusi layar. 5. Proyek MP3 dimulai pada tahun 1977 di Jerman, dan paten untuk penggunaannya akhirnya diberikan

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Simple Present Tense Vs Past

Here are the translations of the sentences with verbs filled in: 1. Korea memproduksi pemutar MP3 pertama pada tahun 1998. 2. Kebanyakan laptop sekarang menggunakan baterai berbasis litium. 3. Dimensi layar laptop menentukan seberapa besar mesin itu sendiri akan menjadi. 4. Jumlah piksel memberitahu resolusi layar. 5. Proyek MP3 dimulai pada tahun 1977 di Jerman, dan paten untuk penggunaannya akhirnya diberikan

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Simple Present Tense

VS
Simple Past Tense
Simple Present Tense
Definition
It’s used to talk about daily activities, real fact.
Patter
(+) S + V1 (s/es) + O (+) S + tobe + O
( - ) S + do/does not + V1 + O tobe : am, is, are
( ? ) Do/does + S + V1 + O?
Penggunaan V1 yg ditambah s/es adalah untuk subject tunggal (he, she, it) dan untuk
bentuk negative nya menggunakan does
Passive Voice= O + tobe + V3 (tobe: is dan are)
Example:
1. (+) A student uses hand phone to study in this pandemic era.

(-) A student doesn’t use hand phone to study in this pandemic era
(?) Does a student use hand phone to study in this pandemic?
Yes, he does/ no, he doesn’t
2. (+) The teachers teach the student via online.
(-) The teachers don’t teach the student via online.
(?) Do the teachers teach the student via online?
Yes, they do/ no, they don’t
Simple Past Tense
Definition
It’s used to talk about past activities or activities that happen in the past.
Pattern
(+) S + V2 + O (+) S + tobe + O
(-) S + didn’t + V1 + O tobe : was, were
(?) Did + S + V1 + O?
Example:
• Chester Carlson invented a method of transferring images from one piece of
paper to another using static electricity
Find the simple present or past sentences in the following text.
• A laptop is a computer which is easy to carry around. Its user can fold the laptop along its hinge for
carrying. The laptop was created mainly for this particular reason. Computer parts were scaled to smaller
size so this could happen.

• The first laptop was invented in 1979 by British Designer Bill Moggridge. In 1982, two computer designers
from Microsoft, Kazuhiko Nishi and Bill Gates, started their discussion concerning a new portable
computer. The main thing about the computer was a new LCD technology. A year later the company
launched its TRS-80 Model 100, which was a computer that looked pretty much like the laptops we know
today.
• The development of laptops continued with various upgrades and additional functions added. Laptops
have a lot of advantages like:
-People can carry them anywhere, whether office or home.
-They can be used in a smaller space than an ordinary personal computer.
At the same time portable computers have several negative points like:
-Price is higher
-Computer thefts became easier.
-While used in the car they can cause car accidents.
-They break more easily than desktop computers.
Exercise
Complete the following sentences with suitable form of verb then translate the
sentences!
1. Korea (produce) . . . the first MP3 player in 1998.
2. Most laptops these days (run) . . . on lithium-based batteries.
3. The dimension of the laptop’s screen (dictate) . . . how large the machine itself will
be.
4. The number of pixels (tell) . . . you the screen’s resolution.
5. The MP3 project (begin) . . . in 1977 in Germany, and the patent for its use was
finally (grant) . . . in 1989.

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