The Past Perfect Tense

The past perfect tense is most often used for actions that happened before a past event, this is when an
action was completed, or finished at some point in the past before something else happened.
This tense is formed with the past tense form of "to have" (HAD) plus the past participle of the verb
(which can be either regular or irregular in form):

Singular Plural
I had walked we had walked
you had walked you had walked
he/she/it had walked they had walked

Singular Plural
I had slept we had slept
you had slept you had slept
he/she/it had slept they had slept

1. I lost the key that he (give) to me.
2. She told me that she (see) a ghost.
3. I went downstairs because I (hear) a noise.
4. When they came home, Sue (cook) dinner already.
5. We could not send you a postcard because we (forget) our address book.