2ºBACHILLERATO- REPASO - PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

2ºBACHILLERATO: UNIT 1 REVIEW

PAST PERFECT

• Indica una acción pasada que terminó antes que otra, también pasada.   She lived in London when I first met her. Her family had moved there two years before. • Equivale al Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto o al Pretérito Anterior del castellano.               Present perfect: She is worried because she has never taken an exam before               Past perfect: She was worried because she had never taken an exam before

(+) Sujeto + Had + Participio pasado. She had studied her lessons when I arrived

(-) Sujeto + Hadn‘t + Participio pasado. She hadn‘t studied her lessons when I arrived

(?) Had + Sujeto + Participio pasado? Had she studied her lessons when you arrived?

	auxiliary verb	Subject	auxiliary verb		main verb
+		I	had		finished	my work.
+		You	had		stopped	before me.
-		She	had	not	gone	to school.
-		We	had	not	left.
?	Had	you			arrived?
?	Had	they			eaten	dinner?

When speaking with the past perfect tense, we often contract the subject and auxiliary verb:

I had	I'd
you had	you'd
he had she had it had	he'd she'd it'd
we had	we'd
they had	they'd

The 'd contraction is also used for the auxiliary verb would. For example, we'd can mean: We had or We would But usually the main verb is in a different form, for example: We had arrived (past participle) We would arrive (base) It is always clear from the context.

EXERCISES ON PAST PERFECT SIMPLE:  EX1, EX2

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE vs PAST SIMPLE

EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5, EX6, EX7