GUAYAQUIL, NOVIEMBRE 2016
PAST PERFECT
OBJECTIVE
- LEARNING TO USE THE PAST PERFECT
- LEARN ABOUT PAST PERFECT (MEANING AND STRUCTURE)
CLASSROOM LEARNING
The past perfect tense is used to refer to an action that occurred place earlier in another action, although both have happened in the past establishing an order between them.
PAST PERFECT STRUCTURE:
SUBJECT + AUXILIARY(had) + PAST PARTICIPLE + COMPLEMENT
EXAMPLES:
- The film had finished when she arrived at the cinema.
- Viviana had prepared dinner when her husband got home.
- You had cleaned the house.
- He had brought the gifts.
REMEMBER:
In order to build the affirmative form of Past Perfect must be used as auxiliary verb to have in the Simple Past and accompanied by the main verb in the past participle (whether regular verbs or irregular verbs).
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