Monday, October 1, 2007

Simple Past Perfect or Past Perfect (Simple)

Signal words

Use

Form

Examples
affirmative

Examples
negative

Examples
interrogative

already

just

never

mostly when two actions in a story are related to each other: the action which had already happened is put into Past Perfect, the other action into Simple Past

the past of the Present Perfect

had + past participle*

*(infinitive + -ed) or (3rd column of table of irregular verbs)

I had worked.

I hadn't worked.

Had I worked?

He had worked.

He hadn't worked.

Had he worked?

I had gone.

I hadn't gone.

Had I gone?

He had gone.

He hadn't gone.

Had he gone?

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