Past perfect

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

What tense is used in this video?

How do you form
the past perfect?

What is happening in this sentence?

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

What happened

first?

Past Perfect

Had + voltooid deelwoord

1. I watched TV after I had done my homework.
   
2. After he had signed a contract, he started his training again.
   

🇬🇧 Past Simple 

🇳🇱 Verleden Tijd

ww+ed

(irr. verb = 2e vorm)

I 

I saw him yesterday.

🇬🇧 Past Perfect

🇳🇱 Voltooid Verleden Tijd

🇬🇧 Past Simple 

🇳🇱 Verleden Tijd

ww+ed

(irr. verb = 2e vorm)

He arrived to the train station.

I decided to walk home.

🇬🇧 Past Perfect 

🇳🇱 Voltooid Verleden Tijd

had + ww+ed

(irr. verb = had + 3e vorm)

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.

I had been stuck in the lift for hours when a fireman finally came and rescued me.

I had always walked home until I bought my first car.

These are the signal words when using the past perfect....

1. ago, last week, in 2020, , last month, yesterday
2. after, before, when, as soon as, until

Past Perfect

Had + voltooid deelwoord

1. I watched TV after I had done my homework.
   
2. After he had signed a contract, he started his training again.
   

After my father .....(watch) TV,
he ..... (fall) asleep

1. watched - fell
2. had watched - had fallen
3. watches - falls
4. had watched - fell

When I ..... (score) the winning goal, everyone ..... (cheer).

1. score - cheer
2. had scored - cheered
3. scored - have cheered
4. scored - cheered

As soon as they ..... (enter) the cinema, the film ..... (start).

1. entered - started
2. enter - starts
3. had entered - started
4. entered - had started

Before she ..... breakfast, she ..... (take) a bath.

1. has - takes
2. had - took
3. has - has took
4. had - had taken

Past Perfect

Had + voltooid deelwoord

1. I watched TV after I had done my homework.
   
2. After he had signed a contract, he started his training again.
   

After I                                a hamburger I                                 sick.

ate

had eaten

felt

had felt

My uncle ..... (to claim) we ..... (not + to tell) him about the party. (use short form and "-" between your answers)

Pete                           he                                  his homework.

had said

said

hadn't done

didn't do

When I ..... (to enter) the class, the lesson ..... (already + to start). (use "-"
between your answers)

Before they                              to the cinema they                      

out for dinner.

had gone

went

had gone

went

I ..... (to go) to bed, immediately after I ..... (to finish) reading my book. (use "-" between the answers)

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