Explanation of the past perfect
I will give a short explanation of the past perfect to freshen you memory. You can choose to read this or go straight to the exercise.
We use the past perfect to show the order of past actions and giving reasons. We form the present perfect with had + past participle (regular past participle ends in -ed, such as finished). Some examples are: I had already seen the film, we had not finished the job and had she met him before?
The order of past actions:
We use the past perfect to show which action happened first:
Giving reasons: