Untuk berkata belum dalam bahasa Inggeris, kita gunakan salah satu perkataan-perkataan berikut, bergantung kepada 'objek' ('I, you, singular, plural') dan 'masa' ('tense') :
'Has not'.
'Have not'.
'Had not'.
Perkataan-perkataan diatas digunakan dalam salah satu struktur berikut, bergantung kepada kesesuaiannya :
1. (Objek) + 'has not' + ('past participle')
2. (Objek) + 'have not' + ('past participle')
3. (Objek) + 'had not' + ('past participle')
1. Struktur : (Objek) + 'has not' + ('past participle')
Struktur ini berbentuk begini : (Objek) tertentu diikuti perkataan 'has not' diikuti dengan ('past participle') tertentu.
'Has not' biasa diringkaskan menjadi 'hasn't'.
Struktur ini digunakan bagi :
1. Objek : 'He, she, it, this, that' dan lain-lain 'singular'.
2. Masa : 'Present Perfect tense' (Dahulu hingga sekarang - hal belum itu ujud pada masa dahulu berlanjutan hingga sekarang).
| English | Melayu | English | Melayu |
| Come | Datang | She has not come | Dia belum datang |
| Marry | Kahwin | He has not married | Dia belum berkahwin |
| Begin | Mula | The show has not begun | Pertunjukan itu belum bermula |
| Make | Buat | Ali has not made decision | Ali belum membuat keputusan |
| Collapse | Roboh | It has not collapsed | Ia belum roboh lagi |
| Change | Tukar | She has not changed | Dia belum berubah |
| Climb | Panjat | He has not climbed the mountain | Dia belum memanjat gunung itu |
| Read | Baca | She has not read the book | Dia belum membaca buku itu |
| Do | Buat | He has not done it | Dia belum melaksanakannya |
2. Struktur : (Objek) + 'have not' + ('past participle')
'Have not' biasa diringkaskan menjadi 'haven't'.
Struktur ini berbentuk begini : (Objek) tertentu diikuti perkataan 'have not' diikuti dengan ('past participle') tertentu.
Struktur ini digunakan bagi :
1. Objek : 'I, you, we, they, these, those' dan lain-lain 'plural'.
2. Masa : 'Past Perfect tense' (dahulu hingga sekarang - hal belum itu ujud pada masa dahulu berlanjutan hingga sekarang) .
| English | Melayu | English | Melayu |
| Eat | Makan | I have not eaten | Saya belum makan |
| Accept | Terima | We have not accepted the letters | Kami belum menerima surat-surat itu |
| Give | Beri | They have not given us the dateline | Mereka belum memberi kita tarikh akhir |
| Pass | Lulus | Ali and Abu have not passed the test | Ali dan Abu belum lulus ujian itu |
| Make | Buat | I have not made it | Saya belum berjaya |
| Cook | Masak | You have not cooked our dinner | Awak belum memasak makanan malam kita |
| See | Tengok | We have not seen the movie | Kami belum menonton filem itu |
| Meet | Jumpa | They have not met him | Mereka belum berjumpa dia |
| Do | Laksana | I have not done it | Saya belum melaksanakannya |
| Do | Laksana | You have not done it | Awak belum melaksanakannya |
3. Struktur : (Objek) + 'had not' + ('past participle')
Struktur ini berbentuk begini : (Objek) tertentu diikuti perkataan 'had not' diikuti dengan ('past participle') tertentu.
'Had not' biasa diringkaskan menjadi 'hadn't'.
Struktur ini digunakan bagi :
1. Objek : Semua objek iaitu 'I, he, she, it, this, that, singular, you, we, they, these, those, plural'.
2. Masa : 'Past Perfect tense' (dahulu hingga dahulu - hal belum itu ujud pada masa dahulu berlanjutan hingga ke satu masa dahulu juga) .
| English | Melayu | English | Melayu |
| Come | Datang | She had not come at that time | Dia belum datang pada masa itu |
| Marry | Kahwin | He had not married in 1990 | Dia belum berkahwin pasa 1990 |
| Begin | Mula | The show had not begun at 8 pm yesterday | Pertunjukan itu belum bermula pada jam 8 malam semalam |
| Make | Buat | Ali had not made decision | Ali belum membuat keputusan |
| Collapse | Roboh | It had not collapsed | Ia belum roboh lagi |
| Change | Tukar | She had not changed | Dia belum berubah |
| Climb | Panjat | He had not climbed the mountain | Dia belum memanjat gunung itu |
| Read | Baca | She had not read the book | Dia belum membaca buku itu |
| Eat | Makan | I had not eaten | Saya belum makan |
| Accept | Terima | We had not accepted the letters | Kami belum menerima surat-surat itu |
| Give | Beri | They had not given us the dateline | Mereka belum memberi kita tarikh akhir |
| Pass | Lulus | Ali and Abu had not passed the test | Ali dan Abu belum lulus ujian itu |
| Make | Buat | I had not made it | Saya belum berjaya |
| Cook | Masak | You had not cooked our dinner | Awak belum memasak makanan malam kita |
| See | Tengok | We had not seen the movie | Kami belum menonton filem itu |
| Meet | Jumpa | They had not met him | Mereka belum berjumpa dia |
Ringkasan :
| Struktur | Objek | Masa | Bentuk |
| (Objek) + has not + ('past participle') | Singular | Present perfect tense | Negatif |
| (Objek) + have not + ('past participle') | I, you, plural | Present Perfect tense | Negatif |
| (Objek) + had not + ('past participle') | Semua | Past Perfect tense | Negatif |
