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An English teacher shows how to make the past perfect tense: had + past participle. The past perfect shows that something happened before another past event.
An English teacher shows how to make the past perfect tense: had + past participle. The past perfect shows that something happened before another past event.
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amigo, friend, te equivocastes para las 3eras personas es HAS NO HAVE PUTOOO
thank you very much for posting the video
had you gone to USA?<—this is past perfect..
cause maybe you never been in USA.. or you may went to USA.!!
paste percect means something that you didnt do or maybe you did
the difference between past tense and past perfect.. is that in past perfect there is a mystery about if u did or u dint something
im glad i found this ..a big help for me.. im manolito from the philippines
this is much better, thanks for the explanation ..
Hi Rawan,
The past perfect is used to describe an action that happened before another past action:
She had lived in California for ten years before she moved to Seattle. (the first past action = live; the second past action = move)
I had never visited Riyadh until last year.
(”visit” is the past action, completed. Last year is also entirely in the past)
I have never visited London. (this is the present perfect and the truth expressed by this statement goes back to birth)
Paul
thanks teacher for the tutorials, but i couldn’t understand what is the main purpose of the past perfect. I repeated it many times i’m still confused.
what is the difference between the past tense and the past perfect.
my name is Rawan from Arabia
In the sentence They had never been to New York, is Never Been a compound verb
Thanks for the comment. Yes, I agree with you. I’ll try to work that in. The volume is a problem, too. I’m using a built-in webcam.
The meaning is slightly different. The past perfect is more precise and sometimes necessary when making conditional sentence or indirect quotations; however, most Americans don’t know the difference, so if you just stick with the simple past tense, you’ll be okay here.
Still–you should know the difference.
Paul
is it correct to use the past perfect in the same way as the past simple tense, in meaning?
Yes, you can call it that, but I don’t know a single English teacher who does, nor do English grammar books refer to it as the pluperfect. Let’s stick with “past perfect.”
This is the pluperfect tense, as far as I am aware
why cant the example ’she’d had’ could be just simple ’she had’
my understanding is that there are 2 events that occur in past, and therefore both events are written in past tense.
Eg. “They had eaten the whole pizza before I arrived”
But what about
She’d had many jobs in the past, but her new job is ok. Here the second event is in present tense ie, ‘be’ form is used.
Also could you tell me whats difference between sentance containing
‘had had’ and ‘had’
ops, not before in the second sentence, but when.
Hello there, what’s the difference between saying:
“They had eaten the whole pizza before I arrived.” from
“They had already eaten the whole pizza before I arrived.”?
Yes, it’s okay to use the contraction–they’d. Many people don’t use the contraction because it’s hard to pronounce or they want to underscore the time relationship between the two events.
if i want to say this to somebody-”they had eaten the whole pizza before i arrived.”do we have to say they’d or they had?
Thank you for your response.
The horizontal line you draw on the board would be a good way to show how Past Perfect, Past Continuous, and Past Perfect Continuous differ time-wise.
Hi Swytek,
Perfect continuous and perfect tenses are, indeed, similar, but a continuous tense must logically be something that continues nonstop across time. For example, “I had been using that soap for years, but then I stopped using it when I found something better.” It is possible to use the past perfect in this sentence, “had used,” but the nature of the action seems to call for the continuous form. It’s a little confusing, isn’t it?
The website says Past Perfect Continuous is used to show an event that started in the past and stopped before another event in the past. That also sounds like Past Perfect. What’s the difference?