Dalam Past tense , bentuk kalimat tanya (pertanyaan tertutup
/ dengan jawaban ya / tidak) dibentuk dengan perubahan Auxiliary verb sebagai
berikut :
DO / DOES menjadi DID
AM menjadi WAS
IS menjadi WAS
ARE menjadi WERE
Contoh :
I went to the cinema
Do you go to the cinema?(present tense)
Did you go to the cinema? > Yes I did / No Idid not
(WENT kembali menjadi GO ketika auxiliary DID muncul)
She wrote a poem last Sunday
Does she always write a poem every Sunday? (present
tense)
Did she write a poem last Sunday?
(wrote kembali menjadi write )
Are you sick?
Were you sick?
Is she a policewoman?
Was she a police woman?