past perfect

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Past Perfect

You know and can consciously use the past perfect tense

Fill in the Past Perfect:
When I walked in, the meeting ___already___ (start).

Past Perfect

• When you want to say that something in the past happened before something else happened. 

E.g.: I had never flown in an airplane, before I went to London.

🇬🇧 Past Simple 

🇳🇱 Verleden Tijd

ww+ed

(irr. verb = 2e vorm)

I 

I saw him yesterday.

🇬🇧 Past Perfect

🇳🇱 Voltooid Verleden Tijd

Past Simple 

verb +ed

(irr. verb = 2nd form)

He arrived to the train station.

I decided to walk home.

Past Perfect 

had + verb +ed

(irr. verb = had + third form)

When he arrived to the train station the train had left.

I had lost my bike key so I decided to walk home.

The Past Perfect shows what happened first in the past.

When they _______ (finish) school, they _______ (go) to the mall.

1. had finished - went
2. finished - had gone

They ________ (show) me the pictures they ________ (take) during their holiday.

1. had shown - took
2. showed - had taken

The boy _______ (be) sorry for what he ______ (do).

1. had been - did
2. was - had done

What is the tense in this sentence?
I grew up in the Netherlands.

1. Present Simple
2. Past Simple
3. Present Perfect
4. Past Perfect

Which two tenses are used below?
"They had travelled all over the world, before they settled in New York."

1. Present Simple
2. Past Simple
3. Present Perfect
4. Past Perfect

They … (close) the bar after the last guest … (depart)

1. closed, departed
2. closed, had departed
3. had closed, departed
4. had closed, had departed

After the meeting … (finish), they … (go) out for a drink.

1. finished, went
2. finished, had gone
3. had finished, went
4. had finished, had gone

Fill in the Past Perfect:
After he ______ (pass) his exam, he threw a party.

Fill in the Past Perfect:
He was shocked because he ____ never ____ (see) anything like this.

After they ... (eat) the shellfish, they ... (begin) to feel sick.

She .... (live) in China before she ... (go) to Thailand.

When I ... (arrive) at the cinema, the film .... (start).

When we ... (finish) dinner, we ... (go) out.

The referee ... (to pull) a red card, because the player ... (to make) a foul.

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