Past Indefinite/Simple Tense
Past Indefinite/Simple Tense
সাধারণত অতীতকালে কোনো কাজ হয়েছিল এবং তার ফল বর্তমান নেই, এরূপ বোঝালে verb এর Past Indefinite/Simple Tense হয়।
যেমন-
Mr. Ahmed met a friend.
He gave the book to her sister.
I was ill.
Structure:
Subject+verb এর past form+object+extension
Use of Past Indefinite/Simple Tense
(a)অতীতকালে কোনো কাজ হয়েছিল বুঝাতে: His father died last year.
(b)অতীতকালে কোনো কাজ নিয়মিত হতো বা অভ্যাস বুঝাতে: Mamun used to walk (walked) in the morning.
(c)As soon as যুক্ত sentence এর উভয় sentence ই simple tense হয়: As soon as the teacher entered the classroom, the students stood up.
(d)Since এর পূর্বের অংশ present tense এর হলে পরের অংশ simple past হয়: Five years have passed since his
father died.
(e) It is time, It is high time, I wish, I fancy ইত্যাদির পর
: I wish I were rich.
(f) অতীত নির্দেশক শব্দ যেমন yesterday, ago, once, long
ago, once upon a time, last year, last month, 1971(অতীতের সাল) থাকলে সাধারণত simple past tense হয়: He came here yesterday.
(g) মালিকানা বুঝাতে : I had a cow.
(h) অতীত কালে দুটি কাজ হলে একটি past simple tense এবং অন্যটি past perfect
tense হয়: The patient had died before the doctor came.\
Negative form of Simple Past tense
Past Indefinite Tense কে
negative করতে হলে Subject এর পর did not বসাতে হয়।
Structure: Subject+did not+মূল verb এর present form+object+extension.
He did not play well.
I did not play cricket.
Interrogative form of Simple Past Tense
Past Indefinite Tense কে
interrogative করতে হলে Subject এর আগে did বসাতে হয়।
Structure: Did/didn’t +Subject+মূল verb এর present form+object+extension?
Didn’t he play well?
Did I eat bread?
Where did you go?
তবে
to be verb যদি মূল verb হিসেবে থাকে did ব্যবহৃত হয় না। যেমন-
He was not ill.
Was he ill?
Simple past tense in passive form
Structure: Object এর
subject form + was/were + verb এর
past participle + preposition (by, with, to, at ইত্যাদি)
+ subject এর object form
A letter was written by me.
I was called by her.
They were seen by me.
