Salam

Today we talk about Past Tense. This is used when we want to tell others what we did yesterday/ last week/ last month etc etc . Past events (peristiwa yang sudah lepas).

See the sentences below.

1. I married in 1981. I was in my final year degree in Leeds, England.

2. I got a son in 1982.

See married – past tense for ‘marry’ khawin, bernikah dengan isteri saya

See got — past tense for ‘get’ dapat anak tu// memperolehi anak lelaki ‘son’.

Exercise 1.

Change these few words into past tense. Check with your dictionary.

a) kick – ?

b) cook – ?

c) swim – ?

Yes you are right.

The answers are : kicked/ cooked/ swam

I think you will find that the answers are very straight forward. All the answers got ‘+ed’ at the back of each word EXCEPT the last one.

kick = kick + ‘ed’ = kicked

cook = cook + ‘ed’ = cooked

swim = swim + ‘ed’ NO NO NO — > it is ‘swam’. Why? U better ask your English teacher or check with your teacher(s).

but if you write swim + ed = swimed = I think it is also OK because … we are Malays/ Melayu lah.

(laugh). Yes we must sometimes laugh .. to show that we are happy most of the time learning English.

Till then .. good bye.

Wallahu aklam.

Original link: https://nenez9595.blogspot.com/2011/08/learning-english-among-malays-ii.html