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    The past perfect tense is used to talk about actions that were completed before something else in the past. It is formed using "had" plus the past participle of the main verb. Some examples of its uses include talking about an event that occurred before another past action, expressing that something happened before a specific time in the past, and showing that something started in the past and continued up until another past action.

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    The past perfect tense is used to talk about actions that were completed before something else in the past. It is formed using "had" plus the past participle of the main verb. Some examples of its uses include talking about an event that occurred before another past action, expressing that something happened before a specific time in the past, and showing that something started in the past and continued up until another past action.

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    The past perfect tense is used to talk about actions that were completed before something else in the past. It is formed using "had" plus the past participle of the main verb. Some examples of its uses include talking about an event that occurred before another past action, expressing that something happened before a specific time in the past, and showing that something started in the past and continued up until another past action.

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    Past Perfect

    Mauricio Mares
    Victor Ochoa

    Form:
    HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE
    Example:
    You had studied English before you moved to New York
    Had you studied English before you moved to New York
    You had not studied English before you moved to New
    York

    The past Perfect expresses the idea that somethings


    occurs before another action in the past.
    It can also show that somethings happened before a
    specific time in the past.
    Example:
    I had never seen such a beautiful beach before I went to
    Kavai

    We can use the past perfect to show that something


    started in the past and continued up until another
    action in the past
    Example:
    We had had the car for ten years before it broke down

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