Past Perfect for intermediate learners
This tense is an advance tense and we use it to talk about the past in a lot of interesting ways, and you’ll see what they are. So are you ready? Let’s start.
What Is Past Perfect?
To learn past perfect all you have to do is to consider two events that one of them happened sooner than the other. Both of the events are in the past.
What Is the Structure?
The structure to make a sentence in the past perfect form is:
- subject + had + past participle
They
He
Why Do We Use Past Perfect?
The past perfect tense is used to talk about an event that happened at a time before the occurrence of another event.
He
In this example, he talked about his decision first and then she/he accepted it.
I
Negation
To negate a sentence in the past perfect tense, all you have to do is to use the following structure:
- subject + had +
not + past participle
Here are a few examples:
They
I
Question Form
To make an interrogative sentence you have to use the verb 'had' at the beginning of the sentence. Here are a few examples:
Review
The past perfect tense is used to talk about a past event that happened sooner than another past event. Here is the structure:
- subject + had + past participle
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