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How To Form The Past Perfect
How To Form The Past Perfect
We form the past perfect by using ‘had’ and the past participle of the verb. For example,
To make questions we invert the auxiliary verb had and the subject:
The kids were really excited about visiting the fun park. They’d never been
before.
I didn’t go to see the film with my friends because I’d already seen it.
The new CEO joined the company last month. She’d previously worked for
a pharmaceutical firm.
When we got to the airport we realized we’d left the tickets at home.
Tim had just retired when you joined the firm, hadn’t he?
Had the boys already done their homework when you spoke to them?
Yesterday my alarm didn’t ring so I woke up late and missed the bus.
If you’re talking about the past but want to refer to something that
happened at an earlier time, you need to use the past perfect. For
example,
Yesterday I woke up late and missed the bus because my alarm hadn’t
rung.