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Past Perfect Simple

The document provides an overview of the past perfect simple tense, including its structure for affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences. It explains the use of contractions and short answers, along with the specific applications of the tense in expressing actions that occurred before another past action. Additionally, it highlights the time expressions commonly associated with the past perfect simple.

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Past Perfect Simple

The document provides an overview of the past perfect simple tense, including its structure for affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences. It explains the use of contractions and short answers, along with the specific applications of the tense in expressing actions that occurred before another past action. Additionally, it highlights the time expressions commonly associated with the past perfect simple.

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Past perfect simple

Affirmative sentences

Subject + had + past participle + complements

I/you/we/they + had + past participle (3rd column)

I had met him before the party.


By the time you arrived home, she had already left.
When we arrived home, she had already made dinner.
She had phoned me twice before I could reach her.
He began to run after he had seen the lion.

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Past perfect simple

Negative sentences

Subject + had not (hadn’t) + past participle +


complements

I/you/he/she/it/we/they + had not (hadn’t) + past


participle (3rd column)

I had met him before the party.


By the time you arrived home, she had already left.
When we arrived home, she had already made dinner.
She had phoned me twice before I could reach her.
He began to run after he had seen the lion.

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Past perfect simple

Interrogative sentences

Had + subject + past participle + complements

Had + I/you/we/they + past participle (3rd column)

I had met him before the party.


By the time you arrived home, she had already left.
When we arrived home, she had already made dinner.
She had phoned me twice before I could reach her.
He began to run after he had seen the lion.

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Contractions HAD + NOT = HADN’T
HAd YOU EVER BEEN TO THAILAND?
NO, I HAdN’T.

HAd SHE STAYED AT HOME?


Short answers NO, SHE HAdn’T.

had tHEY ARRIVED OK?


YES, THEY had.

HAd HE LEFT HOME EARLY?


YES, HE HAd.
In short answers, always…
.
Write Yes or No first. Then, write a comma (,)

Write a period at the end of the sentence (.)

Always use personal pronouns, not names or expressions.

Always use contracted forms in negatives and full forms in


affirmatives.
USES OF THE PAST PERFECT SIMPLE
➢ To talk about something that happened before something else that is also in the
past.
When I arrived home, my mom had already left.

➢ To express something that started in the past and continued up to another action
or time in the past.
When he graduated, he had been in Madrid for four years. (= He arrived in
Madrid four years before he graduated and lived there until he graduated, or
even longer.)

➢ It is used with the following time words or expressions: by, by the time, when, just,
already, yet, before, after…

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