past prefect

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Ling Chin Chuan

Low Ying Yee

Amir Akmal

Lee Seo Lin

Mohd Idris


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Thepast perfect tenseis often used in English

when we are relating two events which happened in

the past.

It helps to show which event happened first


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made with the auxiliary verb had + past

participle (which is different for regular

and irregular verbs: -edending for

regular verbs,

e.g. worked, travelled, tried, different

forms for irregular verbs,e.g. written, made, sung).


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Posi t ive

Subject + had + past participle

You/ He/ She/ They had finished before I arrived.

Negative

Subject + had + not (hadn't) + past participle

I/ You/ She/ We/ They hadn't eaten before he

finished the job.


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Subjek Have Past Pasticiple Contraction

I had arrived.

eaten.

Idarrived.

Id eaten.

You had arrived.

eaten.

Youdarrived.

Youd eaten.He had arrived.

eaten.

Hedarrived.

Hed eaten.

She had arrived.

eaten.

Shedarrived.

Shed eaten.

It had arrived.eaten.

Itdarrived.Itd eaten.

We had arrived.

eaten.

Wedarrived.

Wed eaten.

They had arrived.

eaten.

Theydarrived.

Theyd eaten.

The rules, using the regular verb arrive

and the irregular verb eat


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I went to see the movie.

Wehad discussed it in class.

Here, we know that the discussion took place

f i rs t -- even though the sentence describing it

comes afterwards.

We discussed the movie, and thenI went to see it.

This can be very useful when you are telling a story

or relating a sequence of events.

At any point in your story, you can jump backto a

previous event, and your reader will not be confused,

because the past perfect will make it clear that the

event happened previously.


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Example:

1.The door bell rang at last. I had been in the room

since breakfast.2. When I arrived there Sarah had already left.

3. I was so hungry! I had not eaten anything since

the morning.

Explain:

1. The bell rang at noon. I came in the morning

before that.2.I arrived after lunch. Sarah went home before

lunch.

3.It was late at night.


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Past prefect also used to refer to activities

that were completed before a po int o f t ime.

Example:

1. In 2005 I had lived in the same place for

ten years.

2. Had you ever travelled by plane before

your holiday in Spain?


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