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    Past Perfect: "Past of The Past"

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    This document provides information about the past perfect and past perfect continuous tenses in English. It defines the tenses, provides examples of their use, common expressions that use these tenses, and common mistakes to avoid when using these tenses. The past perfect tense refers to an action that was completed before another past time or event. The past perfect continuous tense refers to an action that was ongoing or in progress up until another time in the past.

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    This document provides information about the past perfect and past perfect continuous tenses in English. It defines the tenses, provides examples of their use, common expressions that use these tenses, and common mistakes to avoid when using these tenses. The past perfect tense refers to an action that was completed before another past time or event. The past perfect continuous tense refers to an action that was ongoing or in progress up until another time in the past.

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    This pdf contains practice mcqs on Past Perfect Tense.

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    This document provides information about the past perfect and past perfect continuous tenses in English. It defines the tenses, provides examples of their use, common expressions that use these tenses, and common mistakes to avoid when using these tenses. The past perfect tense refers to an action that was completed before another past time or event. The past perfect continuous tense refers to an action that was ongoing or in progress up until another time in the past.

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    Past Perfect: "Past of The Past"

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    PET-2022 Page #……… (1) ENGLISH

    PAST PERFECT
    * *
    9:00 10:00 Now
    11:00

    Past simple: The meeting started at 9:00.


    We arrived at 10:00.
    Past perfect: When we arrived, the meeting had started.
    I
    You
    We
    worked
    They had
    gone
    He
    She
    It
    “Past of the past”
    * *
    5:00 6:00 Now

    Past simple: We arrived at 6: 00


    The flight left at 5: 00
    Past perfect: When we arrived at the airport, the flight had left.
    Form: subject + had + past participle regular and irregular verbs:
    Positive Negative Question
    I I
    You hadn’t you
    had
    We had not we
    worked wroked?
    They worked had they
    had gone?
    He had not he
    gone
    She gone she
    It it
    To have Break fast/lunch/dinner
    Usses:
    Short time ago: Before guets arrived, we had cleaned the house.

    Long time ago:


    By the time Farzana moved to Canada, she had graduated form University.

    S IN D H P U B L IC S CHO O L & C O L L E G E U M E R KO T COMPOSED BY: M. HANIF MAHAR


    PET-2022 Page #……… (2) ENGLISH
    Common expressions used with past perfect:
    1. Before we moved, we had already sold the house.
    2. After we had left our home the guests arrived.
    3. When she arrived home, she hadn’t heard the news yet.
    4. At the time I joined the company, I had been a salesperson for five years.
    5. He had lived in New York since 2018 since he was a child.
    6. Before they visited the U.S, they had never seen snow.
    7. We had just had lunch when our friends dropped in.
    Common mistakes:
    Verb: We had went to the mall.
    We had gone to the mall.
    Spelling: Who had planed the party?

    Who had planned the party?

    Contracton: They had’nt been there before?

    They hadn’t been there befroe?

    Short answer: Had you seen that movie before?

    Yes I seen. No, I didn’t

    Yes, I had. No, I hand’t

    Tense: When we arrived.


    he went out already.
    He had aleraddy gone out.

    S IN D H P U B L IC S CHO O L & C O L L E G E U M E R KO T COMPOSED BY: M. HANIF MAHAR


    PET-2022 Page #……… (3) ENGLISH
    Past perfect continuous/progressive
    * * Now
     I had been living in Hyderabad.
     I had been living in Karachi before I moved to Hyderabad.
    I
    You
    We living
    They had been working
    He saving
    She
    It
    Form: subject + had been + verb + ing.
    Positive Negative Question
    I I
    You you
    We hadn’t we
    had
    had not been
    They been Had they
    been working?
    He working he
    working
    She she
    It it
    Spelling of verbs:
    Most verbs + ing help – helping
    dream – dreaming
    Verbs ending in e drop-e hire – hiring
    make – making
    Verbs in ie change-ie to–y die – dying
    tie – tying
    Verbs ending in c.v.c double last letter swim - swimming
    Control – controlling

    S IN D H P U B L IC S CHO O L & C O L L E G E U M E R KO T COMPOSED BY: M. HANIF MAHAR


    PET-2022 Page #……… (4) ENGLISH
    Uses:
    Happening It had been snowing all week.
    Happening before another We had been playing golf before it started to
    event rain.
    Happening + duration They had been working on that project for six
    months/since January .
    Happening the cause She was tired because she had been studying
    all night.
    Stative verbs Believe/know/understand/love/hate/like/dislike
    Common mistakes:
    Tense: Shahid has been looking for a job.
    Shahid had been looking for a job.
    Stative verb: They had been knowing each other for many years.
    Spelling: She had’nt been attending classes.
    The traffic hadn’t been moveing.
    They had be chating.
    Since/ for: The police had been looking for him since two months.

    S IN D H P U B L IC S CHO O L & C O L L E G E U M E R KO T COMPOSED BY: M. HANIF MAHAR

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