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Past Perfect Simple (Trecutul

perfect simplu)
Trecutul perfect (Past perfect), exprimă o acţiune care a avut loc şi
s-a terminat în trecut, înaintea altei acţiuni tot din trecut. Acesta se
formează cu had + participiu trecut al verbului.
În limba engleză past perfect nu se foloseşte foarte des, însă este
folositor, şi sună foarte bine atunci când este utilizat corect. Pe
deasupra, este foarte uşor de realizat – trecutul simplu al verbului ‘to
have’ în faţa participiului trecut (ştiu că mă repet, însă repetiţia este
mama învăţăturii).
Câteva exemple de situaţii în care folosim Past Perfect:
1. O acţiune terminată înaintea a ceva din trecut: 

 When we arrived, the film had started. (= first the film started, then
later we arrived)

2. Pentru a explica sau a a oferi un argument în legătură cu


ceva din trecut: 

 I‘d eaten dinner so I wasn’t hungry.


 It had snowed in the night, so the bus didn’t arrive.

3. Doar cu verbe statice – când este vorba de ceva început în


trecut şi continuat până la o altă acţiune tot din trecut:

 When he graduated, he had been in London for six years.(= he


arrived in London six years before he graduated and lived there
continuously until he graduated, or even longer)

4. Ca parte din propoziţia condiţională de tipul III: 


If I had known you were ill, I would have visited you.
Forma pozitivă – se formează cu ‘had’ + the past participle (se
adaugă de obicei -ed la sfârşit, însă câteva verbe au participiu trecut
neregulat):

 I had been (I’d been)


 You had gone (you’d gone)
 She had met (she’d met)
 He had played (he’d played)
 It had rained (it’d rained)
 We had bought (we’d bought)
 They had studied (they’d studied)

Forma prescurtată pentru ‘had’ este ‘d.


(Fii atent să nu îl confunzi cu ‘would’. Would este urmat
de infintitv – “I’d go”, în timp ce had este urmat de participiul
trecut – “I’d gone”).
La forma negativă se adaugă ‘not’:

 I had not been (I hadn’t been)


 You had not gone (you hadn’t gone)
 She had not met (she hadn’t met)
 He had not played (he hadn’t played)
 It had not rained (it hadn’t rained)
 We had not bought (we hadn’t bought)
 They had not studied (they hadn’t studied)

Pentru forma interogativă, adăugăm “had” înaintea subiectului.

 Had I come?
 Had you eaten?
 Had she gone?
 Had it rained?
 Had he studied?
 Had we met?
 Had they left?
‘wh’ questions

 When had I come?


 Why had you eaten?
 Where had she gone?
 When had it rained?
 Why had he studied?
 How had we met?
 When had they left?

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