3 Past Tenses for Recount Text
Friday, August 2, 2013
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Learning English with recount text means learning the usage of 3 past tenses. They are simple past tense, past continuous tense, and past perfect tense. From these three tenses, a recount text is written well. Why does a recount text need the 3 kinds of past tenses? The answer is here we go!
Rehat sejenak dari contoh jenis text, kali ini kita akan belajar tenses bahasa Inggris. Meski begitu kita tidak membicarakan macam tenses secara murni tetapi tetap berkaintan dengan jenis text. Kali ini kita mengupas tenses yang dipakai dalam penulisan recount text. Dengan kata lain ini adalah salah satu pembahasan language feature of recount text, khususnya jenis tenses lampau yang dipakai.
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Three past tenses have great roles to compose a recount text example[/caption]
Sebagaimana dalam contoh contoh recount text terdahulu, kita memperhatikan bahwa jenis teks ini adalah bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan, menceritakan kembali pengalaman penulis atau orang lain. Karena objeknya adalah pengalaman, dan yang namanya pengalaman itu pasti terjadi di waktu lampau, alias telah terjadi sebelum diceritakan, maka penulisan yang cocok dalam recount text adalah menggunakan past tenses.
Selanjutnya jenis past tense apa yang paling sering dipakai dalam penulisan teks recount? Setidaknya ad 3 macam past tense yang perlu kita pelajari ketika kita berhadapan dengan recount text; yaitu
1. Simple Past Tense
2. Past Continuous Tense
3. Past Perfect Tense
Dalam kesempatan ini, kita tidak membahasa teori dari masing masing tenses bahasa Inggris tersebut, tetapi lebih pada bagaimana pemakaian ke 3 jenis Past Tenses tersebut dalam penulisan recount text.
Simple Past Tense And Recount Text
[caption id="attachment_4229" align="aligncenter" width="674"]Lats week we went to the theater. we had a very good seat. We watched a very interesting movie. The movie told us about love story. We were very excited in that time.Past Continuous Tense And Recount Text [caption id="attachment_4231" align="aligncenter" width="674"]
Yesterday, I went to a gadget store. While I was selecting a suitable phone, a friend came and greeted me. He then helped me to choose the best phone. While I was paying for the phone he said that he was the owner's shop.Past Perfect Tense And Recount Text [caption id="attachment_4230" align="aligncenter" width="674"]
Two days ago I had big works for decorating my room. One day before, I had bought 4 paint buckets with different colors. Before painting my room, I had moved the furniture. I was tired but happy.
Those three kinds of past tense in English are very important and useful to write and understand some genres relating experienced exposure, such as: news item, spoof, narrative, and of course recount text.