FORM

HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE

Ex: When I arrived, my parents had left.Had you already had lunch when they arrived?We hadn’t finished homework when they came.

Auxiliary for the negative

and interrogative

form.

3rd column of irregular verbs

/-ed

USE•The Past Perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before

another action in the past. That’s why it is often combined with the past simple tense.

Ex: I didn’t have any money because I had lost my purse.

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1.I lose my purse2.I don’t have any money

•To describe a period of time before a past action.

Ex: We had had that car for ten years before it broke down

REPHRASING EXERCISES

Rewrite the sentences using the past perfect and the past simple.

I took an aspirin. Then I felt better.After I had taken an aspirin, I felt better.

1 She did her homework. Then she went to bed.

2 We saw our friends. Then we went home.

3 He rang his parents. Then he felt happy.

4 I went to London. Then I visited Oxford.

•They took some photos. Then they left.

6 First, I bought the ticket. Then, I went into the cinema

Complete with the past simple or past perfect form of the verbs in brackets.

(by the time= when)

1.Pam ______________ (erase) the blackboard before the teacher______________(check) all the exams.

2.Sam ________________ (do) the homework by the time his mum ______________(return) home

3. Mary _____________ (finish) her project and was walking her dog by the time her mother _______________ (arrive) home.

4.By the time Keith ______________(get) to the bus stop, the bus ______________(already/leave).

5. It ________________ (start) to rain when Mary ________________(leave) school.