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    The document provides an explanation of the past perfect tense. It discusses how the past perfect tense is used to describe actions that occurred before other past actions. It provides examples of sentences using the past perfect tense with time expressions like "before", "after", "by the time", and "as soon as". It also explains the structure of the past perfect tense and includes additional example sentences.

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    PAST PERFECT

    BY
    TEACHER DIANA TORRES CERQUEDA
    I had eaten my
    breakfast before I
    went to school.
    • I had eaten breakfast
    before
    I went to school .
    How do we use the Past
    Perfect Tense?
    • The past perfect tense expresses action in
    the past before another action in the past.
    This is the past in the past.

    EXAMPLE :
    • The train left at 9am. We arrived at 9.15am.
    When we arrived, the train had left.
    The Past Perfect

    had received it hit


    had eaten my friend stopped by

    The Titanic had received many warnings before it


    hit the iceberg.
    I had already eaten when my friend stopped by to
    visit.
    Past perfect uses

    To talk about a past action that ended before

    another action or time in the past, we use before

    and after. We use the simple past too.

    The film had started before we arrived


    We also use the past perfect to show the cause
    of a past action
    I was tired on Monday because I hadn’t slept
    well the night before
    With time expressions such as when, after,
    before, as soon as, by the time, by and until
    By the time I got home, my mother had
    already prepared dinner
    He came to my house.
    Simple Past Tense

    I had already left.


    Past Perfect Tense
    He came to my house
    after
    I had already left.
    Simple Past Tense

    He came to my house
    after I had already left.
    Past Perfect

    Chapter 11
    Simple Past Tense

    He came to my house.
    Past Perfect
    I had already left.
    He came to my house
    after I had already left.
    Chapter 11
    Look at this example.

    After he had taken


    his music lesson,
    he made a telephone call.
    What had Ali done before he went
    fishing?

    Ali had repaired


    his car
    before he went fishing.
    The key words of
    this tense are:
    after
    as soon as{had+PP} , Past simple
    The key words of
    this tense are:
    before
    By the time {past simple}+ Had+PP
    Make similar sentences using after and before.

    Finish work-watch TV
    After I had finished
    work , I watched TV

    Before I watched TV , I
    had finished my work.
    Make similar sentences using by the time and as
    soon as
    Eat breakfast-go to school
    By the time I went to school,I
    had eaten my breakfast.
    As soon as I had eaten my
    breakfast, I went to school
    Make similar sentences using by the time and as
    soon as
    Police arrive-thief escape
    By the time the police arrived,
    the thief had escaped.
    As soon as the thief had
    escaped , the police arrived.
    So it is correct to say:

    After he had finished the


    meeting , he made a
    telephone call.

    Before he made a telephone


    call , he had finished the
    meeting.
    The structure of the past perfect
    tense is:
    auxiliary
    subject main verb
    verb
    + I had finished my work.
    before
    + You had stopped
    me.
    - She had not gone to school.

    - We had not left.

    ? Had you arrived?

    ? Had they eaten dinner?


    Timeline Example

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