{"id":7118,"date":"2017-09-26T20:07:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=7118"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:27:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:27:11","slug":"past-perfect-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2017\/09\/past-perfect-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Perfect Tense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past perfect tense\u00a0tells us that an action was finished at some point in the past before something else happened.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Form:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>subject + had +\u00a0<b>past<\/b>\u00a0participle =\u00a0<b>past perfect tense<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Examples:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She had met him before the\u00a0event.<\/li>\n<li>I had sent the email before he talked to me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Usage:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are many situations where the past perfect tense can be used, such as the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To show that an action happened before something else in the past:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Example:\u00a0<\/em>Anthony\u00a0had met\u00a0Ryan before you introduced him to us at the party.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To show that an action happened before a specific time in the past:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Example:<\/em>\u00a0They\u00a0had gotten engaged\u00a0before last year.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that past perfect tense makes it clear that one thing happened before another in the past and that the order of events doesn&#8217;t matter\u00a0because the tense already makes it clear which event happened first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past perfect tense\u00a0tells us that an action was finished at some point in the past before something else happened. 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