Our lesson today is about the (past perfect tense) and this tense is very difficult for many people and they don't know when to use it and when the simple past is used and what is the difference between them but in this article we explain ( the past perfect ) at length in terms of usage and composition method in a smooth and simple way .
In Arabic there is only one tense in the past express things and events that occurred earlier but in English, it's a little different, There is more than one tense that expresses the past .
There is a simple past tense which is used when we talking about an event in the past and we have already explained this lesson but the past perfect used when talking about Two events that occurred in the past.
When to use the past prefect ?
In Arabic there is only one tense in the past express things and events that occurred earlier but in English, it's a little different, There is more than one tense that expresses the past .
There is a simple past tense which is used when we talking about an event in the past and we have already explained this lesson but the past perfect used when talking about Two events that occurred in the past.
That's , the tense is used to order events in the sentence. It explains which of the two events occurred before the other, without this tense the sentence becomes ambiguous .
One of the most important words that is closely related to the past perfect tense is ( Just ) which used to indicate to event occurred before very short time from before now for example :
✔ The food had burned just I went out of the kitchen.
✔ The ambulance had arrived just I called it .
✔ She had started cleaning the house just her daughter slept.
✔ My mother had gone in to the doctor just she felt tired .
✔ He had remember his phone just arrived to his office .
✔ the tree had fallen just my son arrived to the garden .
How to form the past perfect ?
| Examples |
Formation |
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| -Samir had finished his homework after he came to the party . -They had sent this email before they finished their food . My son had slept before we arrived to the park. -My dad had gone out when I came back to home. -My husband had saved his documents before he sold his computer. |
Had + past participle |
Affirmation |
| -I hadn't watched T.V after I finished my work. -I and my friends hadn't played chess after we finished working on the project. -I hadn't watched the film Because I read the novel. -They hadn't bought a present before they went to birthday party. |
Had + not + past participle |
Negative |
| -Had Sandy started signing? -Had they finished their duties ? -Had your friend arrived to the station ? -Had you bought this car? -Had your sister married ? |
Had + subject + past participle ? | Question |
( Just ) in the past perfect ?
One of the most important words that is closely related to the past perfect tense is ( Just ) which used to indicate to event occurred before very short time from before now for example :
✔ The food had burned just I went out of the kitchen.
✔ The ambulance had arrived just I called it .
✔ She had started cleaning the house just her daughter slept.
✔ My mother had gone in to the doctor just she felt tired .
✔ He had remember his phone just arrived to his office .
✔ the tree had fallen just my son arrived to the garden .
And that's when we go to the end of today's lesson and we go to know the past perfect tense in terms of usage and composition method with many examples .
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English Tenses