PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

The past perfect is made from the verb had and the past participle of a verb:

I had finished the work.

She had gone.

The past perfect  refers to a time in the past, not the present. We use the past perfect:

• for something that started in the past and continued up to a given time in the past:
  When George died, he and Anne had been married for nearly fifty years.

• for something that happened several times before a point in the past and continued after that point:

  He was a wonderful guitarist. He had been playing ever since he was a teenager.

and...

• when we are reporting our experience up to a point in the past:

  My eighteenth birthday was the worst day I had ever had.

• for something that happened in the past and is important at a later time in the past: 

  I couldn't get into the house. I had lost my keys.

We often use expressions ...

with for and since with the past perfect:

I was sorry when the factory closed. I had worked there for ten years. 

I had been watching that programme every week since it started, but I missed the last episode. 

We can also use the past perfect

To make hypotheses about the past that is when we imagine something.

Multiple Select

Which is the correct form of an affirmative sentence in past perfect simple?

• Subject+ had+verb past participle+complement

• Subject+ have+verb past participle+complement

• Subject+ has+verb past participle+complement

Multiple Select

Choose the question structure according to the example:

• Have he tried to enter to school for years?

• He hasn`t tried enough

• Had he worked there for all his life?

Multiple Select

I _____ never _____ her before.

• have / been

• had / seen

• has / seen

Multiple Select

Nobody explained why the project had ________ on time.

• n't been completed

• not completed

• n't complete

Open Ended

Write the structure for the negative form of past perfect simple:

Q & A time

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