Past Perfect 1 British English Student Ver2
Past Perfect 1 British English Student Ver2
Past Perfect 1 British English Student Ver2
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PERFECT 1
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1 Presentation
The past perfect simple (had + past participle) is used to talk about past actions or situations that
happened before a specific time in the past.
I arrived at Jack’s house at 11am this morning. When I arrived, he had already left.
USE 1 We often use the past perfect with the past simple to talk about something that happened before an
event in the past:
I tried to call Anne but she had lost her phone.
Tom was late because he had been stuck in traffic.
When I turned on the TV, the match had already started.
USE 2 The past perfect is the past of the present perfect (have/has + past participle). We use the present
perfect to talk about actions or situations that happened before or up to now:
Jack isn’t at home right now. He has already left.
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USE 3 We often use the past perfect with time expressions such as already, just, since, for, never, etc.:
We got divorced last year. We’d been married for nearly ten years.
When I called Josie, she’d just finished her homework.
I sold my car yesterday. I’d had it since 2005.
NOTE: We normally say ’d had instead of had had.
Look at the pictures of the actress Marilyn Monroe in 1945 and 1957. Look at the picture on the right
and complete the sentences below.
become be married
change
dye earn
receive
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Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form, past perfect, present perfect or past simple: