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    The document discusses the past perfect tense and how it is used to talk about an event that occurred before another past event or specific time. It provides an example of using the past perfect tense to indicate that a teacher had already started class when some students arrived later. The document also notes that the past perfect tense refers to an "earlier past".

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    The document discusses the past perfect tense and how it is used to talk about an event that occurred before another past event or specific time. It provides an example of using the past perfect tense to indicate that a teacher had already started class when some students arrived later. The document also notes that the past perfect tense refers to an "earlier past".

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    10 Past Perfect and Past Simple

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    The document discusses the past perfect tense and how it is used to talk about an event that occurred before another past event or specific time. It provides an example of using the past perfect tense to indicate that a teacher had already started class when some students arrived later. The document also notes that the past perfect tense refers to an "earlier past".

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    PAST PERFECT

    • A few students arrived when I had already started the class.


    EXAMPLES:
    • A few students arrived when I had already started the class.
    PAST SIMPLE TENSE PAST PERFECT TENSE
    • The class started at 3:15pm.
    • A few students arrived at 3: 30pm.
    • Which happened first?
    PAST PERFECT TENSE (“ earlier past”)
    • Use the past perfect to talk about an event in the past that happened
    before another event or a specific time in the past.

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