Past Perfect

The "past perfect" refers to a time before the recent past . It is used
to indicate that one event occurred before another in the past. It
doesn't matter which event is mentioned first, because the tense
makes clear the temporal order in which they occurred. In general,
we use it for actions that occurred before another action in the past.
As in the present perfect, the past perfect is formed with the
auxiliary verb "to have" and the past participle . The auxiliary
verb will be in the past.

1. Affirmative Sentences
Subject + "had" + past participle
Examples:
I had visited the Louvre before, so I knew where the Mona Lisa was.
They had studied English before they went to London..
Henry changed careers because he had worked as an accountant for
many years and was bored.

2. Negative Sentences

Subject + "had" + "not" + past participle

Examples:
 I had not visited the Louvre before so I didn't know where the
Mona Lisa was.
They had not studied English before they went to London.
Henry changed careers even though he had not worked as an
3. accountant for long.
Interrogative Sentences

"Had" + subject + past participle + ?

Examples:
How did you know where the Mona Lisa was? Had you visited the
Louvre before?
Had they studied English before they went to London?
Had Henry worked as an accountant for long before he changed
careers?
Uses
We use the past perfect to refer to an action or event that began in
the past and that is prior to another action also in the past. The
action that occurred first is in the past perfect and the one that
follows insimple past.
. Used for actions that occurred before a specific time in the past.
. Also, as in the present perfect, with some verbs we use the past
perfect for situations that began in the past and continued to a
specific point in the past.
Exercises
The storm destroyed the sandcastle that we had built .
He had not been to Cape Town before 1997.
When she went out to play, she had already done her
homework.
My brother ate all of the cake that our mum had made .
The doctor took off the plaster that he had put on six
weeks before.
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