PAST PERFECT/PAST

PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
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How do we form the Past Perfect?

HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE

Ali had played football before he went

back home.
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Use:
Past actions previous to other past
actions.
Train leaving Me getting at the station 7.30
7.15
Past perfect Past Simple

Ex: I got to the station at 7.30, but the train to

London had already left.
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Key words with this tense:

After/As soon as + Past Perfect

Before/ By the time + Past Simple

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Examples:
After he had asked for a loan, the
owner decided not to sell the house.

By the time he was sixteen, he had

lived in twenty different countries.
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PROGRESSIVE
How do we form the Past Perfect
Progressive?

HAD BEEN +V-ING

He was out of breath. He had been flying

his
kite.
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PROGRESSIVE
Use:
Something had been happening for a period
of time before something else happened.

Ex: Our game of tennis was interrupted.

Wed been playing for about half an hour
when it started to rain.
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PROGRESSIVE
Actions that were in progress up to
another
past action or time.

Ex: I had been doing my homework

when
she arrived.
The action was ongoing and is often
used
with for, since, all day, all night.

Ex: Ken gave up smoking two years

ago.
Hed been smoking for 30 years.
PRESENT PERFECT P. /
PAST PERFECT P.
Ex: I hope the bus comes soon. Ive
been
waiting for 20 minutes.

Ex: At last the bus came, Id been

waiting
for 20 minutes. (before the bus came)