Helping Verbs - "Had" (Past Perfect Tense)

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Prior to the Revolutionary War, George Washington had been a surveyor and land speculator.

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The United States had been a colony of the British Empire until 1776.

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The American colonies had won a significant number of battles by the end of the war in 1781.

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Correctly written sentence: By the end of the negotiations, both the Americans and the British had signed the Treaty of Paris.

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By the end of the negotiations, both the Americans and the British had signed the Treaty of Paris.

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Many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence had read Thomas Paine's Common Sense before attending the convention.

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Thomas Jefferson had written several now-controversial pieces of writing before he wrote the Declaration of Independence.

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The American Constitution had neglected to include women and people of color until amendments were added later.

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After winning the 1789 presidential election, George Washington had become the nation's first president.