PAST PERFECT
is formed using two components:HAD ( all the pronouns), and the past participle form of a verb.
As you can remember, past partciple means " ado and ido" .
This tense is used to show you which of two events happened first , for example
- I had worked all the week because I needed money.
- Teresa had sold her house last summer because she wanted to move to England
- we were happy because we had won the championship
- Sam had read his book for one month. He felt fascinated.
If you want to deny this sentences you must follow this structure:
SUBJECT + HAD+ NOT + VERB+ COMPLEMENT
EXAMPLES: - She had not studied the lesson
- luis had not solved the exercises
- they had not climbed the mountain
If you want to make a question just follow this:
HAD+ SUBJECT+ VERB+ COMPLEMENT + ?
EXAMPLES: - HAD you sung in the concert?
- HAD mary practiced ballet?
- HAD we made this report?
if you wish to practice here you have some exercise:
-Put the verbs into the correct form (past perfect simple).
- The storm destroyed the sandcastle that we (build) .
- He (not / be) to Cape Town before 1997.
- When she went out to play, she (do / already) her homework.
- My brother ate all of the cake that our mum (make) .
- The doctor took off the plaster that he (put on) six weeks before.
- The waiter brought a drink that I (not / order) .
- I could not remember the poem we (learn) the week before.
- The children collected the chestnuts that (fall) from the tree.
- (he / phone) Angie before he went to see her in London?
- She (not / ride) a horse before that day.

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