past perfect

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Past perfect

De past perfect bestaat uit 2 onderdelen:

had + past participle

The past participle

= het voltooid deelwoord

regular verbs --> ww + ed

Irregular verbs --> 3rd form

This is why you need to study the irregular verbs!!!

contractions

When do you use the past perfect?

When do you use the past perfect?

When do you use the past perfect?

When do you use the past perfect?

Questions and negatives

To form questions, simply put had before the subject:

Had he been to Oxford before he started college?

Had they met before Justin's party. 

Past perfect .......

1. vindt plaats in verleden tijd
2. vindt nu plaats
3. vindt plaats in toekomende tijd

Wat is de past perfect van 'to drive'

1. had driving
2. had drived
3. had driven
4. had drove

Which one is the past perfect?

1. I haven't had such fun in a long time!
2. We had done the laundry before our parents came home.
3. She was talking when he fell.
4. He played piano yesterday.

wat is de juiste vorm van de past perfect ?

1. I have watched that video
2. I watched that video
3. I had been watching the video
4. I had watched

Which is the Past Perfect

1. have eaten
2. has eaten
3. had eaten
4. ate

Wat is de past perfect van
sleep

1. have been sleeping
2. had been sleeping
3. have slept
4. had slept

Make it into Past Perfect.
He ... (meet) her somewhere before.

Past simple > past perfect
We worked > We ............

Turn this into a past perfect form:
She (to) .....go

Zet het werkwoord in de Past Perfect:
I (not meet) ................ him before.

Use past perfect:
_________ (she - to see) the film already?

Je gebruikt de 
Past Perfect bijna 
altijd in combinatie
met de Past Simple. 

1. Before I ____ (start) at the bookstore, I _____ (work) at a supermarket.

1. started - had worked
2. had started - worked

2. I _____ (eat, already) when my mother ____ (come) home.

1. already ate - had come
2. had already eaten - came

3. Alex ____ (say) that he ____ (finish) his homework last night.

1. said - had finished
2. had said - finished

🇬🇧 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.