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Showing posts with label past perfect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label past perfect. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Past perfect: form and use

FORM AND USE:


It is used for actions that start in the past and continue up to a given time in the past:
  • I had finished the article when they said it was dinner time.
  • Yesterday evening at nine o'clock I had already finished the videogame.
  • She hadn't arrived when we phoned.
Also in 3rd type conditional sentences:
  • If you had asked me, I wouldn't have let you go.
  • We wouldn't have solved the quiz if they hadn't helped us.

EXERCISES:
PAST PERFECT:
PAST PERFECT OR PAST SIMPLE:
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Monday, May 27, 2019

How often / how long / when / what time


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Friday, December 14, 2018

Past Perfect tense

FORM AND USE:


It is used for actions that start in the past and continue up to a given time in the past:
  • I had finished the article when they said it was dinner time.
  • Yesterday evening at nine o'clock I had already finished the videogame.
  • She hadn't arrived when we phoned.
Also in 3rd type conditional sentences:
  • If you had asked me, I wouldn't have let you go.
  • We wouldn't have solved the quiz if they hadn't helped us.

EXERCISES:
PAST PERFECT:
PAST PERFECT OR PAST SIMPLE:
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Monday, December 11, 2017

Past perfect tense

FORM AND USE:


It is used for actions that start in the past and continue up to a given time in the past:
  • I had finished the article when they said it was dinner time.
  • Yesterday evening at nine o'clock I had already finished the videogame.
  • She hadn't arrived when we phoned.
Also in 3rd type conditional sentences:
  • If you had asked me, I wouldn't have let you go.
  • We wouldn't have solved the quiz if they hadn't helped us.

EXERCISES:
PAST PERFECT:
PAST PERFECT OR PAST SIMPLE:
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Sunday, December 11, 2016

Past perfect tense

The Past Perfect expresses the idea that something happened before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past.

EXAMPLES:

  • I had never seen such a beautiful Christmas tree before I went to Madrid.
  • I went to the police station because I had lost my credit card.
  • Lisa knew my sister very well, because she had studied at school with her.
  • Had Peter ever studied Chinese before he moved to China?
  • I had never seen a koala before I went to the zoo.

PAST PERFECT EXERCISES:

PAST PERFECT AND SIMPLE PAST EXERCISES:
PAST TENSE





COMPARISON OF PAST TENSES




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