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    The document discusses the past perfect tense, which is used to talk about actions that were completed before something else in the past. It provides examples of the affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms of the past perfect tense using the verbs "had" and a past participle. It also explains that the past perfect tense places the first past action before a second past action and includes examples showing how to identify which action occurred first when using the past perfect and past simple tenses.

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    The document discusses the past perfect tense, which is used to talk about actions that were completed before something else in the past. It provides examples of the affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms of the past perfect tense using the verbs "had" and a past participle. It also explains that the past perfect tense places the first past action before a second past action and includes examples showing how to identify which action occurred first when using the past perfect and past simple tenses.

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    Past perfect

    (The past of the past)


    Affirmative

    Subject + had+ verb past participle + complement

    I
    You
    He
    She had cooked breakfast.
    It
    We
    You
    They
    Negative
    Subject + hadn’t +verb in past participle + complement

    I
    You
    He
    She hadn’t had breakfast.
    It
    We
    You
    They
    Interrogative
    Had + subject + verb in past participle + complement

    I
    you
    he
    Had she eaten vegetables?
    it
    we
    you
    they
    An action in the past before another action
    in the past.

    _X__________________X______________________l
    Past perfect Past simple Present

    When Columbus arrived in Mexico, the Aztecs


    had built Tenochtitlan.
    Identify the action that happened first

    The man _came_ (come) down from the tree

    after the bear _had gone_ (go) away.


    When I __________ (arrive) at the party,
    John ________(leave).
    They _______ (be) tired

    because they _________ (walk) a long way.


    We______(get) to the station

    after the train ___________ (leave).


    Before they _______ (play) videogames

    they _________ (do) the homework

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