Welcome to this tutorial today.
We're going to talk about the past perfect tense.
Let's get started.
Now we use the past perfect to show clearly that one past event happened before another past event.
Note that we use the past perfect in the earlier event.
Have a look at the example over here.
When I arrived at the party Tom wasn't there.
He had gone home.
Note that the sentence he had gone home is in the past perfect tense and it's used to talk about what
happened before I arrived at the party
now to form the past perfect.
We use had plus verb EDI or just the verb and the negative hadn't.
Plus verb EDI or just the verb.
Have a look at the examples over here.
Question form had Kate gone to bed when you arrived home.
Positive sentence yes she had she had gone to bed when I arrived home she'd gone to bed negative sentence
no she hadn't she hadn't gone to bed when I arrived home.
Note that the past perfect I had done is the past of the present perfect I have done half a look at
the differences below present I'm not hungry I've just had breakfast.
Your room is dirty you haven't cleaned it for months past I wasn't hungry I just had breakfast.
Your room was dirty you hadn't cleaned it for months
now we can use the past perfect with phrases such as to think no be sure realize remember suspect understand
etc..
Have a look at the examples below.
She was sure she hadn't locked the door when I got home I realized I'd left my computer at Starbucks
no many speakers use the past perfect in case of before or after to show a strong connection between
the two events.
Have a look at the following sentences.
Pam left her house before her parents arrived.
Now this sentence is in the past simple and in this sentence Pam had left her house before her parents
arrived.
Now this is a past simple plus past perfect.