Grammar Level 3- Lesson Fifteen
In this grammar lesson, you learn about Past Perfect in English and how to use it in your English conversation and writing. Just follow examples and write them down a few times to learn them very well. After finishing this lesson, you should work on its quiz.
Grammar Recap
In our previous lesson, we covered the Perfect Modal Continuous If you just landed on this page, we suggest that you complete our previous lesson including its quizzes before continuing on this lesson.
Requirement Lessons
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The 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.
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simple
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past
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past participle
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find
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found
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found
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visit
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visited
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visited
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* 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.
Quiz for Past Perfect
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