Jerónimo's Lesson
Perfect tenses: past
Past Perfect
- 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.
STRUCTURE
| 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.
