PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

STRUCTURE
The simple perfect past is used to refer to an
action that started in the past and that is prior to
another action also in the past.

Examples:

• I had read the book before I saw the movie.

• Donna had just left when you called.

Affirmative sentences

Subject + “had”+ past participle

Examples:

• They had studied English before they went

to london .
Negative sentences

Subject + “had”+ not+ past participle

Examples:

• They had not studied English before they

went to london .
Interrogative sentences

Had + Subject + past participle .?

Examples:

• Had they studied English before they went

to london ?
• The churches of Ecuador had suffered many
thefts in the lasts years, because there isn't
security in the country.
• The Museum of Ecuador had not obtained a
security plan to safeguard cultural assets.
• In the year two thousand seven had lost the
Custody, important Cultural Heritage of
Ecuador.
• The burglars had stolen the Custody of the La
Concepcion Museum in the Riobamba city,
they had broken the urn and fled with
Custody and other objects.
• In February of two thousand eight, five parts
of Custody had recovered in Colombia
country.
• This news had caused consternation
throughout the country for such a lost value.