CLASS 6
THE PAST PERFECT
[had + past participle]
An aspect of the verb that designates an action which has been completed before another past action. Also known as the past perfective or the pluperfect.
Formed with the auxiliary had and the past participle of a verb, the past perfect indicates a time further back in the past than the present perfect or the simple past tense.
Examples:
- You had studied English before you moved to New York.
- Had you studied English before you moved to New York?
- You had not studied English before you moved to New York.
- She never saw a bear before she moved to Alaska. Not Correct
- She had never seen a bear before she moved to Alaska. Correct
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The goal of this class is to learn to distinguish the different times at the time of reading, writing and speaking.
The use of the past perfect is very important to refer to an action that took place at an earlier time.
ResponderEliminarthanks for you blog because now I have more clearly which the present perfect is something which occurred before another action in the past
ResponderEliminarat this time we see what is the perfect time spent at the current time we learned
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