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    The document discusses the past perfect tense, which is used to indicate that an action was completed before another past action. It provides rules for forming the past perfect using "had" plus the past participle verb form. Examples are given to illustrate using the past perfect to clarify the order of events that happened in the past and to show that something started in the past and continued up until another past action.

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    The document discusses the past perfect tense, which is used to indicate that an action was completed before another past action. It provides rules for forming the past perfect using "had" plus the past participle verb form. Examples are given to illustrate using the past perfect to clarify the order of events that happened in the past and to show that something started in the past and continued up until another past action.

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    PAST PERFECT

    TENSE
    RULES OF FORM
    Past Participle = verb + ( -ed, -d, -t, -en, or -n)

    [had + past participle]

    Examples:
    •You had studied English before you moved to New York.
    •Had you studied English before you moved to New York?
    •You had not studied English before you moved to New York.
    Positive Negative Question

    I had not finished. Had I finished?


    I had finished.

    You had not finished. Had you finished?


    You had finished.

    We had not finished. Had we finished?


    We had finished.

    They had not finished. Had they finished?


    They had finished.

    He had not finished. Had he finished?


    He had finished.

    She had not finished. Had she finished?


    She had finished.

    It had not finished. Had it finished?


    It had finished.
    USE 1: COMPLETED ACTION BEFORE
    SOMETHING IN THE PAST

    • The Past Perfect expresses the idea that something


    occurred before another action in the past.

    • It can also show that something happened before a


    specific time in the past.
    USE 1: COMPLETED ACTION BEFORE
    SOMETHING IN THE PAST (CONT.)
    The past perfect is used to show you which of two events
    happened first. Imagine that two things happened in the past:

    Here, we don't know which order the events happened in. That
    may be important -- perhaps I went to see the movie after the
    discussion, or maybe I saw the movie before the discussion.
    That is why we use the past perfect to clarify.
    USE 1: COMPLETED ACTION BEFORE
    SOMETHING IN THE PAST (CONT.)

    Here, we KNOW that the discussion took place FIRST --


    even though the sentence describing it comes afterwards.

    We discussed the movie, and THEN I went to see it.

    This can be very useful when you are telling a story or


    relating a sequence of events.
    USE 2: DURATION BEFORE SOMETHING
    IN THE PAST (NON-CONTINUOUS
    VERBS)
    With Non-Continuous Verbs and some non-
    continuous uses of Mixed Verbs, we use the Past
    Perfect to show that something started in the past
    and continued up until another action in the past.
    Examples:
    •By the time Alex finished his studies, he had been in London for over eight years.
    •They felt bad about selling the house because they had owned it for more than
    forty years.
    CONSTRUCTION OF PAST PERFECT:
    AFFIRMATIVE
    Subject Had Past participle
    Arrived
    I Had
    Eaten
    Had Arrived
    You
    Eaten
    Arrived
    He Had
    Eaten
    Arrived
    She Had
    Eaten
    Arrived
    It Had
    Eaten
    Had Arrived
    We
    Eaten
    Had Arrived
    They
    Eaten
    CONSTRUCTION OF PAST PERFECT:
    NEGATIVE
    Subject Have Not Past participle
    Arrived
    I Had Not
    Eaten
    Arrived
    You Had Not
    Eaten
    Arrived
    He Had Not
    Eaten
    Arrived
    She Had Not
    Eaten
    Arrived
    It Had Not
    Eaten
    Arrived
    We Had Not
    Eaten
    Arrived
    They Had Not
    Eaten
    CONSTRUCTION OF PAST PERFECT:
    YES/NO QUESTIONS
    Have Subject Past participle ?
    Arrived
    Had I ?
    Eaten
    Had Arrived
    You ?
    Eaten
    Arrived Short answers:
    Had He ?
    Eaten

    Had She
    Arrived
    ?
    Yes, I had
    Eaten No, I had not (hadn’t)
    Arrived
    Had It ?
    Eaten Yes, he had
    Had Arrived No, he had not (hadn’t)
    We ?
    Eaten
    Had Arrived
    They ?
    Eaten

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