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    The document discusses the past perfect tense in English including its structure, uses, and examples. The past perfect is used to refer to an action that occurred before another point in the past. It can be used with adverbs like already, just, and never. The structure involves the auxiliary verb had and the past participle.

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    The document discusses the past perfect tense in English including its structure, uses, and examples. The past perfect is used to refer to an action that occurred before another point in the past. It can be used with adverbs like already, just, and never. The structure involves the auxiliary verb had and the past participle.

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    The document discusses the past perfect tense in English including its structure, uses, and examples. The past perfect is used to refer to an action that occurred before another point in the past. It can be used with adverbs like already, just, and never. The structure involves the auxiliary verb had and the past participle.

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    Past perfect

    -Valentina Angulo
    -Lina Bustamante
    -Juan Buelvas
    -Valentina Criales
    - Luisa Salazar
    - 10B
    What is past perfect and when is it used?

    1
    John went out yesterday morning at 8 am.
    The past perfect is an English (John salió ayer a las 8 de la mañana).
    verb tense that is used when
    we talk about the past and
    want to refer to something that
    happened before a specific
    point in the past.
    When is the past perfect used?
    Use
    Use 1 use 2 3 used 4
    The past perfect is used to refer It serves to talk about It is used to talk about In some situations, it can
    to an action that occurred in the an action that occurred actions that began in the be used in conditional
    past before another. In this case, before a specific time past and continued until sentences. For example:
    the first action is conjugated in in the past. For a certain time also in
    the past perfect, while the example: the past. For example: If you had told me
    second, the most recent, is before, I would have
    conjugated in the simple past. I had fallen asleep I had been happy in helped you (Si me
    For example: when the clock rang all my jobs until I got hubieras dicho antes,
    at 11 p.m (Ya me this one (Había sido yo te hubiera ayudado).
    I had watched the movie había dormido feliz en todos mis
    before I read the book (Vi la cuando la alarma trabajos hasta que
    película antes de leer el libro. sonó a las 11 p.m). entré a este).
    Use of the past perfect in reported speech

    He said my father had asked for a loan


    at the bank. (El dijo que mi padre había
    solicitado un préstamo en el banco).
    01
    You can use the past perfect in
    reported speech when you
    need to report something that
    another person has said,
    believed or thought.
    Structure of the past perfect

    Past perfect She was really active after

    affirmative
    1 she had had an energetic
    drink.

    In the affirmative, the past perfect is helped


    by had and the past participle of the verb
    that gives meaning to the sentence. The
    contraction 'd is usually used. Use the
    following structure:

    Subject + had + past participle +


    complement
    Structure of the past perfect

    Past perfect negative 1 I hadn’t had the chance to rest

    The negative past perfect is helped by the


    auxiliary verb had in the simple past and
    the past participle of the verb accompanied
    by a 'not' in between. The contraction
    'hadn't' is usually used. Use the following
    structure:

    Subject + had + not + past participle +


    complement
    What is past perfect and when is it used?

    Past perfect 1 Had he studied for the test?


    interrogative
    The structure of the interrogative
    form of the English past perfect is:

    Had + subject + past participle +


    complement
    Adverbs, in combination with the past perfect, usually use the same
    structure:

    subject + had
    + adverb +
    past participle
    Use of adverbs with the past perfect

    Already Just Never


    Corresponds to the Just is used to talk about an Never can be translated as
    expression 'ya' in Spanish, action that has occurred 'never before now' and is
    that is, it is used when an recently, before a specific located before the main
    event has been brought event, action or moment. verb. Examples:
    forward or has occurred in Examples:
    the past. Example: I had never seen an
    Mario had just arrived at animal like that until I
    I had already visited John the station when the train went to the zoo. (Nunca
    several times before departed. (Mario acababa había visto un animal así
    Christmas. (Ya había de llegar a la estación hasta que fui al
    visitado a John varias cuando partió el tren.) zoológico).
    veces antes de Navidad.)
    GRACI
    AS!

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