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Past Perfect

Past Perfect (positive, negative, questions)

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She/We had lost her/our keys.

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She/We hadn’t lost her/our keys.

yes/no?

Had she/we lost her/our keys?

wh?

What had she/we lost?

1.1 Use Past Perfect to refer to an action or state that occurred before another action or point in the past.


Examples

We had already left by the time the meeting started.

He had forgotten his keys, so he couldn’t get in.

She had finished her homework before the guests arrived.


1.2 Use Past Perfect with adverbial clauses introduced by after, by the time, before, etc., to describe actions completed before another action in the past.


Examples

I remembered it after I had already left home.

By the time I arrived, she had gone.

They called us after they had finished the meeting.


 
 
 

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