Past Perfect Tense

Form

Subject + had + Past Participle

Positive She had done her homework when I came.

Subject + had + not + Past Participle

Had not = hadn’t
Negative She hadn’t done her homework when I came.

Had + Subject + Past Participle?

Question Had she done her homework when you came?

Usages

The past perfect and present perfect are used in the same way. However, the past perfect
refers to a time in the past, while the present perfect refers to a time in the present.

  to talk about something started in the past and still continued to a given time in the past
 I had learned English for 10 years.

 to talk about something happened before another action in the past

 My mom had come home before it rained.

Signal words:

Already, just, never, ever