Past Perfect Form and uses

Past perfect: Form We form the past perfect tense with had + a past participle It was strange Angela had left everything in such order Had Paco left everything in order? No, he hadn’t.

Past perfect: Form adding –d, -ed to a verb Regular past participles are formed by adding –d, -ed to a verb

Past perfect: Form For irregular past participles, see the third column of the lists of irregular verbs

Past Perfect: Uses To talk about a past action that ended before another action or time in the past (when we use before and after, we may use the simple past too) She had been in perfect health when she left the house that morning To show the cause of a past action Paco didn’t feel like going anywhere else. He had visited the diamond mines in Koidu With time expressions such as when, after, before, as soon as, by the time, by, until With adverbs such as ever, never, already, yet, just, so far and still Ever since they were married, she had kept a diary.