OBJECTIVES Past perfect tense (Explanation) Exercises
Past perfect tense 7:30am…. I ate a big breakfast 8:00am…. I went to school. Now…. 1:00 pm Both of these activities happened in the past! However, one happened before the other What happened first? What happened second? First: I ate breakfast. Second: I went to school.
Here is a common way to write (or say) these two actions using the past perfect. The past perfect is written in red. Before I went to school, I had eaten a big breakfast. -OR- After I had eaten breakfast, I went to school.
The past perfect tense Look at this sentence . I had eaten my breakfast before I went to school. 6:30 a.m 7:00 a.m
How is the past perfect formed? Had+PP. Ali had played football before he went back home.
Look at this example. After she had taken his music lesson, she 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 {past simple} + Had+PP By the time
The use of the past perfect tense. We use the past perfect to talk about an action which happened before another action in the past
After I had finished work ,I watched TV 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.
As soon as I had eaten my breakfast,I went to school 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
Police arrive-thief escape 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.
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