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PAST PERFECT
TENSE
POR AZUL AGUIRRE E IGNACIO LENING
 TRODUCTION
IN
 PAST
SIMPLE
THIS TENSE IS ESSENTIAL
TO UNDERSTAND THE PAST
PERFECT
WHEN DO WE USE
IT?
THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE INDICATES
THAT THE ACTION OCCURRED AT A
CERTAIN TIME AND THEN WAS
COMPLETED.
NOW, PAST PERFECT
WE CAN USE THE PAST PERFECT TO
SHOW THE ORDER OF TWO PAST
EVENTS.
THE PAST PERFECT SHOWS THE EARLIER
ACTION AND THE PAST SIMPLE SHOWS
THE LATER ACTION.
 STRUCTURE
SUBJECT + HAD (AUXILIARY VERB) + PAST
PARTICIPLE

HE HAD BEEN TO AUSTRALIA.

QUESTIONS AND
NEGATIVE FORM
TO MAKE A QUESTION:
HAD (AUXILIARY VERB) + SUBJECT + PAST PARTICIPLE

E.G. HAD YOU BEEN TO AUSTRALIA?

TO MAKE IT IN THE NEGATIVE FORM:

SUBJECT + HAD + NOT + PAST PARTICIPLE

E.G. YOU HADN’T BEEN TO AUSTRALIA.

WE ALSO USE ADVERBS...
THE MOST USED ARE
JUST, ALREADY AND YET

SHE HAD JUST ARRIVED FROM

AUSTRALIA.
SHE HAD ALREADY DONE HIS
HOMEWORK.
SHE HADN’T DONE HIS
ASSIGMENTS YET.
 CAN YOU SEE
THE MISTAKES?
THEY HAVE
LEFT WHEN
SHE HAD
I STOPPED
BEEN TO
BY.
EGYPT
HE LEFT
YET
WHEN I
GOT INTO
THE ROOM
 DID YOU DO IT
WELL?
THEY HAD
LEFT
she hadn’t
WHEN I
been to
STOPPED
egypt yet.
BY
HE HAD
LEFT WHEN
I GOT INTO
THE ROOM
HOW DO WE IDENTIFY
THE PAST PERFECT?
I WOULD --> I’D THIS
IS FOLLOWED BY AN EVENT 1 THE FIRST
INFINITIVE VERB ONE THAT TAKES
PLACE
I HAD --> I’D THIS IS EVENT 2 THE
FOLLOWED BY THE SECOND ACTION
PAST PARTICIPLE
 PAST PAST
SIMPLE VS. PERFECT
DID AS AN AUXILIARY
VERB HAD AS AN
WE USE THE SECOND AUXILIARY VERB
COLUMN WE USE THE THIRD
ACTIONS FINISHED IN COLUMN
THE PAST TOOK PLACE BEFORE
SEQUENCE OF ANOTHER ACTION IN
ACTIONS THE PAST
KEY WORDS SUCH AS KEY WORDS SUCH AS
WHEN, FIRST, THEN, UP TO, THEN, NEVER,
BEFORE BECAUSE, AFTER, YET
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