PAST PERFECT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

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WHAT IS IT?

The concept of the past perfect is easier to grasp than that of the present perfect partly because the event is usually clearly in the past. The past perfect can be used to communicate something before the past, or looking back from a past moment in time. This is what PERFECT means. .

example

They had broken the door when I arrived"WHAT HAPPENS FIRST?

THEY HAD BROKEN THE DOOR WHEN I ARRIVED

The past perfect is used to talk about an action that took place before another action or specific time in the past

When there are two actions, the more recent action is in the Past Simple.

- on the one hand -

- on the other hand -

By the time we got to the tickets office, they had sold all the tickets

I had just stepped into the shower when Tim arrived

already

by the time

as soon as

- time expressions

after

- video -

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join the sentencesCLICK ON THE NUMBER TO SEE THE ANSWER-

"I arrived at school/work. Before that I ate breakfast"

I left the house. Before that I turned off the lights. "

I came to this class. Before that I didn’t study English

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Before I arrived at school I had eaten breakfast

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Before I came to this class I hadn't studied any English

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I had turned off the light before I left the house

Example

Example: I got out of bed this morning. Before that I drank a cup of coffee. When I had drunk a cup of coffee I got out of bed this morning

exercises

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

- narrative -

Read the following text and in pairs finish the last sentence of the paragraph

what had happened?

When he opened the door he was shocked. There were clothes all over the floor. His bookshelves were empty and the books were in a big messy pile. There was paper everywhere. The bathroom was also a mess: broken glass on the floor, his bottle of favourite shampoo gone. He looked around and knew immediately what had happened. They….

she knew she had been caught

she hadn't seen the open window seen the open window

she had left him, for good this time

they had changed bags

- Now you do it, but the other way around-

Choose one of these sentences and reconstruct the rest

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