PAST PERFECT

SWOOSH 9
Cláudia Regina Abreu | Cidália Sousa | Vanessa Reis Esteves
Past Perfect
 Past Perfect
Interrogative
Affirmative
Negative
Had+ Subj. + past part.?
Had+ past participle
Had you played basketball?
I had played basketball.
He had gone to the concert. Had he gone to the concert?

Had + not + past part.

I hadn’t played football.
He hadn’t gone to the concert.
 Past Perfect

• Past action which had started before another past action

I had finished my homework when the film started.

Action 1 Action 2
homework film

Past Present

First action: I finished my homework The first action

Second action: the film started must be conjugated
in the Past Perfect
 Past Perfect
USE
• Past action which started before another past action
I had finished my homework when the film started.

• With the expressions “I wish / If only”

If only I had studied. / I wish I had studied more!
 Time to
PRACTISE
 Identify which action in the past took place first in
the past. Then fill in the blanks given the past
simple and the past perfect.

The tennis player won the match. 1st

The tennis player jumped with happiness. 2nd

jumped with
The tennis player ______
happiness because she ________
had won

the tennis match.

 Identify which action in the past took place first in
the past. Then fill in the blanks given the past
simple and the past perfect.

2nd
I arrived at the party.

John left the party (I didn’t see him). 1st

When I ______
arrived at the party John

had (already) left

______________.
 Identify which action in the past took place first in
the past. Then fill in the blanks given the past
simple and the past perfect.

Peter went home. 1st

Sarah looked for Peter at school. 2nd

Sarah ______
looked for Peter at school

had gone home.

but he ________
 Identify which action in the past took place first in
the past. Then fill in the blanks given the past
simple and the past perfect.

I checked if the door was locked. 2nd

My father locked the door. 1st

Before I went to bed I ________

checked if
had locked
my father ____________ the door.
 Identify which action in the past took place first in
the past. Then fill in the blanks given the past
simple and the past perfect.

I arrived at the bank at 6 pm. 2nd

The bank closed at 5:30 pm. 1st

By the time I ______

arrived at the bank it
had (already) closed
_________________.
 Complete with the Past Simple and the Past
Perfect of the verbs in brackets.

1. She had
(study)
studied French before she __(go)___
went to
Paris.
knew
2. I (know) had been
London so well because I ___(be)____
there several times.
3. I (never/see)
had never seen such beautiful monuments

before
had Igone
___(go)____ to Paris. It’s a wonderful city!
 Complete with the Past Simple and the Past
Perfect of the verbs in brackets.

arrived
4. When I (arrive) had started
at the concert, it __(start)
an hour before.
5. Peter got
(get) a good mark in the test because he
had studied a lot the week before.
__(study)
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