Jerónimo's Lesson

Perfect tenses: past

Regular verbs

Memory game

Refers to a time earlier than before now.
To make clear that one event happened before another in the past.
Event A is the event that happened first and Event B is the second or more recent event.

Affirmative	S + HAD + VERB IN P. PARTICIPLE
Negative	S + HADN'T + VERB IN P. PARTICIPLE
Interrogative	HAD/HADN'T + S + VERB IN P. PARTICIPLE + ?

Ex. The train had just left when I arrived at the station.

I had watched the movie before I read the book.

I had saved my document before the computer crashed.

He was very tired because he hadn't slept well.

Sheila hadn't teached German before, and she was nervous.

What happened first?

By Valentina Rodríguez Ramírez