Past Perfect Simple
Past Perfect Simple is event happen before past. We have to know that Past Perfect Simple is commonly used to explain when there are two or more events in the past moment.
Past Perfect Simple is exemplified below:
I took a bath (6.00 am)
I went to School (6.30 am)
From the time mentioned, I took a bath (6.00 am) is first action happens then we decide it as Past Perfect Simple. We can combine those sentences below:
I had taken a bath then I went to school.
Past Perfect Simple is marked by the below formula:
S + had + V3
I had taken
s had v3
when Past Perfect Simple is combined by past tense, note the below requirement:
____ past perfect simple___ before ___past simple____
____ past perfect simple____ and ___past simple____
____ past perfect simple____ then ___past simple____
____ past perfect simple____ as ___past simple______
____ past perfect simple____ but ___past simple____
____ past perfect simple____ so ___past simple____
____ past perfect simple____ when ___past simple____
___past simple_____because ___ past perfect simple____
___past simple_____after ___ past perfect simple____
Past Perfect Simple exercise
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I got home
after my parents went / had gone to bed so I
didn't see them until the morning.
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When
we got to the station, the train already left / had already
left.
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2
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I
did my homework when I got / had got home.
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3
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We ate /
had eaten all the cake when John arrived so there was
nothing left for him.
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When
I got to school I realised / had realised I didn't have
my English homework with me.
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5
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We went /
had gone for a walk after it stopped raining.
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