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Focus 2 Unit 8 (2) Society and politics 2

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Past perfect

Exercise 1

Read the order in which the events happened and then choose between the past simple or past perfect forms to complete the sentences.

Past perfect form and use - Grammar chart

Past perfect form

We make the past perfect with had/ hadn't + past participle: -ed for regular verbs and the 3rd column form for irregular verbs.

The past perfect is the same for all persons.

We can contract had to 'd.

Past perfect use

We use the past perfect when we are talking about the past and then we want to talk about something that happened earlier in the past.

Past perfect or past simple?

We use the past simple to describe a series of past events in chronological order, and we use the past perfect to make clear that one of the events happened before. Compare these two sentences:

When I arrived, she left. (=She left after I arrived.)

When I arrived, she had left. (She left before I arrived)

Be careful with this common mistake!

The contraction 'd can be had or would. Remember that we use an infinitive form after would and a past participle after had.

I'd love to go to your party. (= would)

I noticed that he'd eaten my cake. (= had)

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Past perfect. Learn when and how to use the past perfect tense in English. A2. Pre-intermediate English grammar and exercises.

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Link the sentences using the connector "because" and the Past Perfect. For example: "The plant died. Peter was sad" = "Peter was sad because the plant had died." Remember to write a full-stop at the end of each sentence. Then press "Check".

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Created with Hot Potatoes by Half-Baked Software, registered to Montse Morales.

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Link the sentences using the connector "because" and the Past Perfect. For example: "The plant died. Peter was sad" = "Peter was sad because the plant had died." Remember to write a full-stop at the end of each sentence. Then press "Check".