PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

Past Perfect Simple

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AFFIRMATIVE SENTENCES SUBJECT + HAD+ PP (PAST PARTICIPLE) He had been to London

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NEGATIVE SENTENCES SUBJECT + HAD+NOT+ PP (PAST PARTICIPLE) He hadn´t been to London

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INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES HAD+ SUBJECT+ PP (PAST PARTICIPLE)+? Had he been to London?

FOR WHAT DO WE USE IT?

We'd finished all the water before we were halfway up the mountain.

We use the past perfect simple (had + past participle) to talk about time up to a certain point in the past.

We can use the past perfect to show the order of two past events. The past perfect shows the earlier action and the past simple shows the later action.

When the police arrived, the thief had escaped.

It doesn't matter in which order we say the two events. The following sentence has the same meaning.

The thief had escaped when the police arrived.

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