Past Perfect Tense Voyages 5.4.9

Past Perfect Tense

Lesson 4.9

Past Perfect Tense

Past perfect tells about a past action that was completed before another past action started.

Past perfect sentences will have two past verb forms in them.

Past perfect is formed by using had and the past participle of the verb.

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Reorder

Reorder the following

• Past Perfect

• Past

• Present

• Future

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2

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4

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Examples

After Italians had introduced pizza to the United States, is became a popular food here.

Before I tasted the pizza with pineapple topping, I had not thought of it as an appealing ingredient.

By the 1950s Chicago deep-dish pizza had become popular.

I had cooked supper before mom arrived home.

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Identify the verb phrase in the past perfect tense.

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I wrote my report on food history after I had gathered a lot of information from books and websites.

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Before 10,000 B.C. people had developed bread making.

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By 2400 B.C. people in China had discovered the pleasures of tea.

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According to legend, after a Chinese emperor had ordered the boiling of water for health reasons, some tea leaves fell into the hot water.

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By 100 A.D. the Chinese had formed rice and wheat into long noodles for ease in eating.

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Before the Spanish came to the Americas, people in Europe had not known about tomatoes, potatoes, squash, or corn.

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Before 1870 bananas had been rare in the United States; now they are the world's most popular fruit.

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Peanut butter had not joined jelly in sandwiches until the 1900s.

You will need your book for Ex. 2

Complete the sentence with the past perfect tense of the verb in parentheses.

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find

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got

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pour

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run, removed (separate your verbs with a comma [ , ] )

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eat

Assignment

PB - PG. 61

DO 1-16 as DIRECTED

Do 3 sentences in 17-22. Do either the evens or the odds.

WRITE THESE DIRECTIONS DOWN ON THE TOP OF THE PAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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