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6 Reasons to Use Past Perfect in English

6 Great Reasons to Use Past Perfect in English

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6 Great Reasons to Use Past Perfect in English

When do we use Past Perfect in English? In general, we use Past Perfect to talk about finished actions in a distinct time period before Past Simple Time – to help illustrate ‘two times in the past’. For example:

We had booked a hotel before we left home.

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Question Forms – Past Perfect

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Rearrange the words in each sentence to make a question in past perfect tense.

Don’t forget to put a capital letter at the start of each sentence and a question mark at the end:

1. before had the going lights off you to all switched bed

2. since Road lived Jeremy in had 1989 Cromer

3. the out play their going pupils to completed had work before

4. John you left the got already had time home by

5. drunk half your somebody you from drink returned the when bathroom had

6. the made by call time his boss had appeared Liam phone a

7. school while a a ever still you had career at chef considered as

8. to gone phoned last bed had your them parents you just night when

9. had that seen already you movie

10. already meat out you the the been you cancelled bought before had
party found that had

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Question Forms – Past Perfect - Answers