Past Perfect Tense Grammar
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Grammar Level 3- Lesson 15- Past Perfect Tense Grammar

In this grammar lesson, you learn about Past Perfect Tense Grammar in English and how to use it in your English conversation and writing. Just follow examples of past perfect tense and write them down a few times to learn them very well. After finishing this lesson, you should work on its quiz.

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Examples of Past Perfect Tense

The past perfect tense is usually used with two past actions. The verb in the past perfect shows the first past action.

She had visited several doctors before she found out what the problem was.

First action (verb): had visited

Second action (verb): found out

The word order can be changed but it doesn’t change the meaning:

Before she found out what the problem was, she had visited several doctors.

simple
past
past participle
find
found
found
visit
visited
visited

* find out / found out = learn; discover

Singular
I had visited
You had visited
He had visited
She had visited
It had visited

Plural
We had visited
You had visited
They had visited

examples

He had already started to make breakfast before his wife woke up.

(already is frequently used with perfect tenses. It usually appears between the auxiliary verb and the main verb: had already started)

By the time we arrived at the airport, the plane had already left.

They had worked and saved a lot of money before they retired last year.

 

 

Past Perfect Tense Exercises

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