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    The document discusses the past perfect tense in English. It explains that the past perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. It provides examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms using "had" plus the past participle. Time expressions that can be used with the past perfect are also listed, such as "before" and "after". The key features of the past perfect tense are outlined.

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    The document discusses the past perfect tense in English. It explains that the past perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. It provides examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms using "had" plus the past participle. Time expressions that can be used with the past perfect are also listed, such as "before" and "after". The key features of the past perfect tense are outlined.

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    THE PAST PERFECT

    TENSE
    Maja Balić Motušić, mag.educ.philol.angl.
    I FOUND THAT MY SHIP HAD SAILED.
    FORM
    HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE

    • I knew that my ship had sailed for Colombo.

    • I was feeling very hungry. I had not eaten for almost a day.

    • Had not got = hadn’t got


    • Had spent = ‘d spent

    • I realised I hadn’t got any money. I’d spent it all in my last bar.
    INTERROGATIVE AND NEGATIVE FORM

    • Had you studied English before you moved to New York?

    • You had not studied English before you moved to New York.
    HOW DO WE USE THE PAST PERFECT
    TENSE?
    • The Past Perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in
    the past.
    I realised (at 23.50) that I had spent all my money in my last bar (at 23.00 hours).

    • It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past.
    What’s more, I hadn’t got my seaman’s book with me.
    THE PAST PERFECT

    had received it hit


    •

    • The Titanic had received many warnings before it hit the iceberg.
    • To talk about a past action that ended before another action or time in the past, we use BEFORE

    and AFTER. We use the Past Simple as well.

    The film had started before we arrived.

    • We also use the Past Perfect to show the cause of a past action.

    I was tired on Monday because I hadn’t slept well the night before.

    • With time expressions such as when, after, before, as soon as, by the time, by and until.

    As soon as the port officials had drunk all the Master’s brandy they left the ‘’Merry Widow’’.
    SIMPLE PAST TENSE

    He came to my house
    after I had already left.
    This action
    Past Perfect
    takes place
    further back in
    the past.
    Chapter 11
    HOWEVER…
    • She never saw a bear before she moved to Alaska. Not Correct

    • She had never seen a bear before she moved to Alaska. Correct !

    • Past Perfect is referring to a lack of experience rather than an action at a specific


    time. For this reason, Simple Past cannot be used.
    ADVERBS
    • Always, only, never, ever, still, just, etc.

    • You had previously studied English before you moved to New York.

    • Had you previously studied English before you moved to New York?
    THE KEY WORDS OF THIS TENSE ARE:

    after
    as soon as {had+PP } Past simple
    THE KEY WORDS OF THIS TENSE ARE:

    before
    by the time {past simple} + had+PP
    IT IS CORRECT TO SAY:

    After he had finished the meeting, he made


    a telephone call.

    Before he made a telephone call, he had


    finished the meeting.
    THE STRUCTURE OF THE PAST PERFECT TENSE IS:
    AUXILIARY
      SUBJECT MAIN VERB  
    VERB  
    + I had   finished .my work
    before
    + You had   stopped
    .me
    - She had not gone .to school
    - We had not .left  

    ? Had you   ?arrived  

    ? Had they   eaten ?dinner

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