UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CALLAO

FACULTADA DE INGENIERÍA AMBIENTAL Y RECURSOS NATURALES

PAST PERFECT
SIMPLE
COURSE: ENGLISH
TEACHER: PARDAVE BRANCACHO JHINO
• MURILLO CORRALES ANTONELLA
• NUÑEZ XIOMARA
The past perfect simple expresses an
action taking place before a certain
time in the past.
 Grammatical Rules
1) Form
Subject Auxiliar verb Short form Past participle
 
I had I’d Studied
You You’d Visited
He He’d worked…
She She’d
It It’d
We We’d
they They’d
 Structure

  Positive Negative Question

No differences I had spoken. I had not Had I spoken?
spoken.

Note:
• For irregular verbs, use the past participle form.
• For regular verbs, just add ed.
 Exceptions in Spelling when Adding ed

Exceptions in Spelling when Example

Adding ed
After final e, only add d love – loved
Final consonant after a short, admit – admitted
stressed vowel travel – travelled
or l as final consonant after a
vowel is doubled

Final y after a consonant becomes i hurry – hurried

Affirmative Sentences
They had studied English before they went to London.

Negative Sentences
They had not studied English before they went to
London.

Interrogative Sentences 
Had they studied English before they went to London?