Grammar
| Past Perfect Simple | |
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| Affirmative | Subject + had + Past Participle + Object |
| Examples: I had played football. You had played football. |
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| Negative | Subject + had not + Past Participle + Object |
| Examples I had not played football. You had not played football. |
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| Interrogative | had + Subject + Past Participle + Object |
| Examples Had he played football? Had you played football? |
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| Use (1) | The past perfect tense is used ta talk about what happened before a point in the past |
| Examples Hamid left when the football match had finished. NB. In the sentence above there are two actions: Action 1: When the football match had finished. (past perfect simple) Action 2: Hamid left. (past simple) |
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| Use (2) | The past perfect tense is often used when we report what peaple had said/ thought/ believed |
| Examples John told me he had finished his homework. My father thought I had gone to school. I believed that he had come to see me. |
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