Past Simple & Past Perfect (& Past Perfect Continuous)

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At the end of this lesson...

- I know when and how to use the past perfect

- I know when and how to use the past perfect continuous

The Past Perfect Simple

1. She had finished her homework before dinner started.

2. They had already left when we arrived at the station.

3. I didn’t go to the movie because I had seen it before.

past simple & past perfect

Past Perfect

How:

had + ww+ed

(irr. verb = had + 3e vorm)

When he arrived to the train station the train had left.

I had lost my bike key so I decided to walk home.

When:

The Past Perfect shows what happened first in the past before something else happened..

Past Simple <> Past Perfect Before we ____ (to go) to the party, we _____ (to go) to the cinema.

A

went / went

B

had gone / had gone

C

went / had gone

D

had gone / went

Past simple / past perfect: __________ (to phone) Angie before he __________ ( to go) to London?

A

Did he phone - went

B

Did he phoned - gone

C

Did he phone - had gone

D

Had he phoned - went

Past simple / past perfect: The storm _______ (to destroy) the sandcastle that we _______ (to build).

A

destroys - build

B

had destroyed - built

C

destroyed - had build

D

destroyed - had built

Past Simple <> Past Perfect After Richard _____ (to study) biology, he _____ (to study) maths.

A

studied / studied

B

had studied / had studied

C

studied / had studied

D

had studied / studied

Past simple / past perfect: The waiter __________ (to bring) the drink that I _______ (to order).

A

bring - order

B

had brought - ordered

C

brought - had ordered

D

brings - was ordering

Past Simple <> Past Perfect Before Clark _____ (to call) the police, Sue _____ (to call) the fire department.

A

called / called

B

had called / had called

C

called / had called

D

had called / called

The Past Perfect Continuous

1. She had been studying for two hours before the test began.

2. They were tired because they had been walking all day.

3. It had been raining all day, so the ground was still wet.

Past Perfect Continuous

How:

had been + ww+ing

She had been studying for two hours before the test began.

When:

to talk about an action that started in the past and continued for some time before another action in the past.

It often focuses on duration (how long something was happening).

How do you create the past perfect continuous?

A

had + been + verb-ing

B

had + been + past participle

C

had + verb-ing

D

had + being + verb

Deega __________ for ten minutes when they interrupted her and offered her the job.

A

talked

B

had talked

C

had been talking

D

has talked

We use the past perfect continuous here to express that something had been happening for some time in the past before another event in the past (interrupted and offered = past simple). The sentence often contains words such as after, before, when, so, until or since. The past perfect continuous is formed with had been + a verb with the -ing ending (here: talking). When we use an adverb (here: only) in the sentence, we place it between had and been, so had only been talking.

She _________ (do) her homework for hours when her friend called.

A

had done

B

had been doing

C

did

D

has done

Practice

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At the end of this lesson...

- I know when and how to use the past perfect

- I know when and how to use the past perfect continuous

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