This is the Past Perfect Tense.

By Nicols Bahamondes and Catalina Magdaleno.

CAE Preparation
Grammar Tenses

Cambridge Advanced English 2015-2, hosted by Miss Cecilia Maller.

Universidad Santo Toms. Santiago, CL.

Which are the objectives today?

MAIN

To learn more about Past Perfect Tense.

SECONDARY

To know when to use such structure.

To learn its Affirmative, Negative and Interrogative

structures.

To provide proper examples for each formation.

To prepare our upcoming FCE test using Past

Perfect in a worksheet.

When to use Past Perfect Tense?

There are some uses for the Past Perfect

Tense in certain scenarios.

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When to use Past Perfect Tense?

For example

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When to use Past Perfect Tense?

When we talk about things that started in the past

and continued up to a given time in the past.
When George died, he and Anne had been
married for nearly fifty years.
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When to use Past Perfect Tense?

If we talk about something that happened in the past

but it is important at the time of reporting.
I could not get into the house. I had lost my keys.
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When to use Past Perfect Tense?

Are you using since? It is useful when talking about

things that started in the past.
I had worked in the factory since I left school.
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When to use Past Perfect Tense?

Possibilities are limitless. Conditions, hypotheses and

wishes are used alongside Past Perfect Tense.
I would have helped him if he had asked.
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What is the structure?

Good

question!
The structure for Past Perfect is

and in the next minutes we will show

you more about this structure.

Past Perfect? Yes, we can!

This

is the structure for an affirmative

sentence.

Subject

Have
Valery

had

participle

More information!

a look at the example:

had

waited

for a 18s bonus.

Past Perfect? No way, man.

Because

this is not a pinkish world, we

need to use negative sentences, too.

Subject

How
Kathy

had not participle More information!

it works:
had not

wanted

To lose the
English Lab.

Past Perfect? How Can I?

Questions

are part of our life.

Remember this formula.
Had

Subject participle

More information

Into an interrogative sentence looks like:

Had

Yerko

said

Something funny
yesterday

One day, when

Masaki and
Kinzie were
walking in a
cutscene, he
asked her

Hey, Kinzie. Can I

ask you
something?
Huh?
(Hope he does
not ask me to
scare the
neighbors cat
again).

Tell me, had you

travelled
abroad when
you were alive
in this world ?

Hmmm Of course.
But only to one
place.

And it was London.

Yes I still remember it, despite I

have no brain anymore.
I

had

travelle
d

to London 20
years ago

because the Smilanka Institute of

Arts wanted to exhibit some of my
paintings for a young talent
convention.

Then, Masaki asked Kinzie,

Had

you

seen

any wonders in your

trip

And she replied,

I saw things
you could love
if you go one
day.

If there is a thing I regret about the

trip, is that
I
hadn
eaten
Fish and
t
Chips.
I had a terrible stomachache the
week I was there.

Time for reinforcing.

Time for reinforcing.

This space is for you. Make your own

sentences using this space. In affirmative,
negative and interrogative forms.

To summarize
Today, you were able:
To learn more about Past Perfect tense.
To know when to use such structure.
To learn how to use the Past Perfect tense in
Affirmative, Negative and Interrogative
sentences.
To understand how the Past Perfect tense
works.

This is the Past Perfect Tense.

A presentation by
Nicolas Bahamondes and Catalina Magdaleno
Production Supervisor
Cecilia Maller

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