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#Past perfect how to

Improve your English grammar and learn to speak fluently with this simple practice. By the time I found my phone and got to the gate, the plane had already left. I had finished it before last week.ī) I got to the airport on time, but I lost my phone at the airport store.

Bill wishes he had invested more money in that stock.ī) Yes.

He wishes he had never gotten plastic surgery.

They wish they had never gotten married.

She wishes she had prepared more for her job interview.

I wish I had been nicer to my teachers when I was young.

The children said that they had finished their homework.

Karen said that she hadn't been to New York in many years.

Bill said that his wife had graduated from Harvard.

He said that he had finished all of this work.

They had already fallen asleep before midnight.

I hadn't heard of global warming until I saw that movie.

She had never played tennis before last week.

Luckily, we had found our bag before the plane left.

I had heard about her before I met her.

She had already finished cooking when we arrived.

He had finished studying when she came.

I had never met him before the meeting.

"Had" is followed by a past participle and "would" is followed by a regular verb. Be careful because this is the same contraction as "would".īut we can tell the difference easily. We can make a contraction using pronouns and had.

I had just arrived when it started to rain.

They had just come when the earthquake started.If we add the word "just" to the sentence, it means that action or event ended very recently. She had been angry long before I met her that day.He had been a doctor for 10 years, but now he is retired.Remember to use the past participle "been" with adjectives, nouns, and prepositional phrases. The company had been established before 2001.We had not arrived by the time the train left.She had eaten all of the cookies before we came.Nick had already fallen asleep when I arrived.He had said that we would not need to bring any money.They had already eaten before I arrived.I had learned some Chinese before I visited last year.She stayed up all night because she had not studied.

#Past perfect how to

If you know how to make sentences in the present perfect, then this will be very easy for you. Now, let's take a look at how to make a sentence. She wishes that she had studied harder when she was in high school.I wish I had not drunk alcohol last night.We can also use it with the word "wish" to show that we are unhappy or dissatisfied. Note: "had had" is not a mistake! It is possible with the past perfect!Ĥ. The doctor asked if I had had a previous injury.She had finished all her work before the other employees even started.We can also the past perfect to show that something happened before a specific time.

Remember that many times the past perfect is not necessary or there is an easier way to express the same idea using the simple past tense.Ģ. I had studied Korean before I came to Korea.We use the past perfect to emphasize what action or event happened first. Let's see when we can use the past perfect.ġ. Even though the past perfect is not used a lot in English, it can still be useful in certain situations.