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Past Perfect

The document discusses the past perfect tense in English. It explains that the past perfect expresses an action that took place before a certain time in the past. It provides examples of forming the past perfect for regular and irregular verbs, including exceptions for adding "-ed". It also gives examples of how the past perfect is used to refer to actions that happened before a specific past time or in conditional sentences referring to hypothetical past situations.

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Past Perfect

The document discusses the past perfect tense in English. It explains that the past perfect expresses an action that took place before a certain time in the past. It provides examples of forming the past perfect for regular and irregular verbs, including exceptions for adding "-ed". It also gives examples of how the past perfect is used to refer to actions that happened before a specific past time or in conditional sentences referring to hypothetical past situations.

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PAST PERFECT The past perfect simple expresses an action taking place before a certain time in the past.

Form of Past Perfect

Positive Negative Question no differences I had spoken. I had not spoken. Had I spoken? For irregular verbs, use the past participle form (see list of irregular verbs, 3rd column). For regular verbs, just add ed. Exceptions in Spelling when Adding ed

Exceptions in Spelling when Adding ed after final e, only add d

Example love loved

final consonant after a short, stressed vowel admit admitted or l as final consonant after a vowel is doubled travel travelled final y after a consonant becomes i Use of Past Perfect hurry hurried

action taking place before a certain time in the past (putting emphasis only on the fact, not the duration) Example: Before I came here, I had spoken to Jack. Conditional Sentences Type III (condition that was not given in the past) Example: If I had seen him, I would have talked to him. Signal Words

already, just, never, not yet, once, until that day (with reference to the past, not the present)

If-Satz Typ III (If I had talked, )

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