Past perfect/Past simple

Past perfect Past simple

When you have two actions in the past, you need to show which one happened first. Use the past perfect for the first action:

• 8:00 I ate dinner
• 9:00 He invited me to a restaurant

He invited me to a restaurant, but I had eaten dinner

PAST Perfect

I had driven all nightShe had painted the wall I hadn't been to Asia before We hadn't thought on her Had she bought bananas?

PAST PERFECT WITH TIME EXPRESSIONS

WITH when, after, by the time, before, as soon as...I had painted one wall when I ran out of paint. By the time Richard's mother got home, he'd finished painting the room. As soon as she had called her mom, she decided to visit her. You had studied Italian before you moved to Rome

PAST PERFECT WITH TIME EXPRESSIONS

JUST He'd just finished painting when his mother came in. ALREADY She had already eaten when James arrived EVER/NEVER Until last week I had never painted a room before.

Can you tell the difference? ● When Richard's mother came into the room, he stopped painting. ● When Richard s mother came into the room, he'd stopped painting.

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS 1. Action which started in the past and was still in progress when another action started We had been waiting in line for 4 hours when the stadium opened 2. Continuos action that started and finished at a particular time in the past and the result was still evident at that time. I was tired because I had been running for an hour.

PAST SIMPLE& PAST PERFECT LOVE STORY

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