Past tenses (past perfect simple & continuous) (9th)

Look at the sentence:

I had read the book before I saw the film.

HAD READ is...

• past simple

• past perfect simple

• past perfect continuous

Look at the sentence:

I had been reading before you arrived.

HAD BEEN READING is...

• past simple

• past perfect simple

• past perfect continuous

Look at the sentence:

I read Harry Potter last year.

READ is...

• past simple

• past perfect simple

• past perfect continuous

How do you form the past simple?

• regular verbs with -ed, irregular verbs vary.

• regular verbs with -s, irregular verbs with -ing

How do you form the past perfect simple?

• had + past participle

• had + been + verb-ing

How do you form the past perfect continuous?

• had + past participle

• had + been + verb-ing

We use ______ to describe something that happened before another action in the past.

• the past perfect simple

• the past perfect continuous

We use ______ to describe something that happened before another action in the past, but it focuses on the length of time or duration of the activity.

• the past perfect simple

• the past perfect continuous

We often use _________ with already, just, never.

• the past perfect simple

• the past perfect continuous

Look at these sentence:

The police arrested him, even though he _______ anything illegal.

• hadn't done

• hadn't been doing