Past perfect and Past Perfect Continuous

Past perfect and Past perfect continuous

​Teacher Vu Thanh Phuong 22-7-2022

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I went back to school because I had left my bag in the classroom.

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She had been waiting for a reply to her email for weeks.    

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They had been meeting just once before they decided to get engaged.

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Mum looked really tired when I saw her because she had worked all night.

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When Amy arrived at the café, I think she knew we had been talking about her.

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We hadn't had much time to prepare for the show, but it was fine.

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Joe offered to lend me a book, but I had already been reading it.

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My parents realized I had fought as soon as I got home.

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Had you been hearing about the accident before Lily told you the news?

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It looked as if the men had been planning the robbery for months.

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PRESENTATION

​Past perfect simple

Form:

• + Subject + had + past participle​

• - Subject + hadn't + past participle

• ? Had + Subject + past participle?​

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PRESENTATION

​Past perfect simple

Use:

1. Situations and states before the past: (diễn tả các tình huống và trạng thái trước một hành động quá khứ khác)

   We'd lived next to the gym for a couple of months before I decided to join.

2. ​Completed actions before a moment in the past: (diễn tả các hành động đã hoàn thành trước một thời điểm trong quá khứ)

   ​I'd already bought the computer game when I saw it was cheaper in another shop.​

PRESENTATION

​Past perfect simple

Use:

3. Completed actions where the important thing is the result at a moment in the past: (diễn tả các hành động như là điều kiện tiên quyết cho hành động khác)

   We didn't feel like playing Scrabble because we had just finished a long game of Monopoly.

PRESENTATION

​Past perfect continuous

Form:

• + Subject + had + been + V-ing

• - Subject + had + been + V-ing

• ? Had + subject + been + V-ing?

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PRESENTATION

​Past perfect continuous

Uses:

1. ​Actions continuing up to a moment in the past: (diễn tả các hành động quá khứ diễn ra liên tục tới một thời điểm trong quá khứ)

   ​When you saw us, we had been running tor six miles - and we still had a mile to go.

2. Cause of something in the past: (diễn tả nguyên nhân của hành động quá khứ nào đó )

   Sarah looked tired because she had been exercising all morning.

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He………………..(marry) her two years before we met.

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When I arrived at the station, the train………………..(leave).

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It………………..(rain) for one hour when the wind started to blow.

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Sarah was exhausted. She

(wash) the dishes for more than three hours.