Tutor gramatical: Pluscuamperfecto

The past perfect is a compound tense in English used to express...

• a completed action in the past

• an ongoing action in the past

• an action completed before the present

• an action completed before another past action

Choose the past tense of to have and the past participle.

When we drove up to the farm, we saw that everybody had left.

• When we drove

• up to the farm,

• we saw that

• everybody had left.

Choose the past tense of to have and the past participle.

• We had bought

• it only

• two weeks before.

Choose the past tense of to have and the past participle.

• I had lived

• there when I was a kid,

• and I was eager

• to live there again.

Choose the past tense of to have and the past participle.

• We had not thought

• it would be so cheap

• to buy it,

• but it was.

Choose the past perfect verb.

• In truth,

• I barely recognized it,

• since it had changed

• so much.

Choose the past perfect verb.

• When we went inside,

• we saw that

• the owners had forgotten

• their suitcases.

Choose the past perfect verb.

• At least

• they had already planted

• all the crops

• for the year.

Read the info! What are common words used with this structure? Choose ALL that apply.

• when (cuando)

• then (entonces)

• already (ya)

• not yet (aún/todavía no)

• later (luego)

What form of HABER do you use with the past participle to form the pluscuamperfecto?

• imperfecto

• pretérito

• presente de indicativo

• presente de subjuntivo