PAST PERFECT

INGLÉS VII
USE 1:
◦ We use the past perfect to express a past
action finished before another action in the
past.

 When I came back, a waiter had given my

table to someone else!
 I asked her where she had sat at Taqueria
Loca.
 After ten minutes had passed, Ann finally
showed up.
USE 1:
◦ We can also use the past perfect followed
by before to show that an action was not
done or was incomplete when the past
simple action happened.
Examples:
They left before I'd spoken to them.
Sadly, the author died before he'd finished
the series.
 Adverbs
◦ Examples:
◦ We often use the adverbs already (= 'before the
specified time'), still (= as previously), just (= 'a very
short time before the specified time'), ever (= 'at any
I called his office but he'd already left.
time before the specified time') or never (= 'at no time
before the specified time') with the past perfect.  It still hadn't rained at the beginning of May.
◦ Examples:
I went to visit her when she'd just moved to

It was the most beautiful photo I'd ever seen. Berlin.

Had you ever visited London when you moved there?

I'd never met anyone from California before I met Jim.

USE 2:
◦ We also use the past perfect to show that
something happened before a specific time in
the past.

◦ This had never happened to me before last

night!
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1. I had eaten my breakfast before I left the house.
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2. Sara answered the phone after her mother had called.
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3. The match had finished when I reached the stadium. R
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4. Sylvie had completed the assignment before she went to school.

5. The player had broken his foot before the game finished.

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2. Sylvie had not completed the assignment before she R
went to school.
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3. The player had not broken his foot before the game
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 Complete the sentences
had flown
◦ 1. A: __________ Jim ever (fly) ______________ before his flight last week?

had
B: Yes, he __________.

had
◦ 2. A: __________ eaten
your sister (eat) _________________ breakfast before she left?
hadn’t
B: No, she __________.
had seen
◦ 3. James said he ___________ already (see) _________________ the movie last year.

had _________________
◦ 4. I got lost because I (forget) __________ forgotten to bring a map.

hadn’t _________________
◦ 5. They (not study) __________ studied English before last year.
had lived
◦ 6. She (live) __________ _________________ in Leeds before she moved to London.
 Complete the sentences

had
◦ 7. The baby (fall asleep) __________ fallen asleep
_________________ before eight o’clock.

hadn’t
◦ 8. I (not think) __________ thought
_________________ of that question before.
hadn’t brought
◦ 9. Sue got wet because she (not bring) __________ _________________ an umbrella.

had
◦ 10. He (own) ___________ owned
_________________ his car for a year before he sold it.

◦ 11. I didn’t notice that the traffic light (turn) __________ turned red.
had_________________

had ordered
◦ 12. He (order) __________ _________________ rice, but the waiter served him sou