past perfect

Forms of Past Perfect

The Past Perfect Tense is formed by using the Past Simple Tense of the verb 'to have' with the participle.

 

 

  Positive Negative Question
All pronouns I hadworked You had not worked Had she worked?
  We had spoken He had not spoken Had they spoken?

 

Use of Past Perfect

Signal words

The past perfect simple expresses an action taking place before a certain time in the past, or it expresses that someting did NOT happen in the past, and therefore something else did not, either.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actions taking place before a certain time in the past

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Actions that did NOT happen in the past (Conditional Sentences Type III)

Examples:

 

past perfect - extra exercise 1

past perfect - negations - extra exercise 2

past perfect - questions - extra exercise 3