Grammar- Past perfect and past simple

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

For today:

- Past Simple vs. Past Perfect [explanation]

Past Simple - Past Perfect

Goals

- After this lesson you can use, form and understand the past simple tense.

- After this lesson you can use, form and understand the past perfect tense.

- After this lesson you can use the two tenses in a sentence together.

Grammar: Past simple

PAST SIMPLE

Past Simple

What	Past simple
When	To say that something happened in the past.
How/Form	Add –ed OR an irregular form.
Signal words	Yesterday, last week, last month, two days ago, four days ago, months ago, a second ago, etc.
Examples	He walked her home last night. I talked to him on the phone yesterday. She tried to close her book but a fly got caught in between the pages.

When do you use a past perfect?

Past perfect

Form: had + past participle (3e rijtje): had eaten, had left

Use: 2 moments in the past: Simple Past and Past Perfect

Which action is furthest in the past (which happened first, that is)? That action is a Past Perfect. The other action (i.e. which happened next) is a Past Simple

Past Perfect

Had + 3rd form (irregular verbs) /verb + ed (regular verbs)

Earlier action in the past:

I had cleaned the table before he came in.

Before he came in, I had cleaned the table.

He came in after I had cleaned the table.

• Earlier action/First action in the past = past perfect
• Later action/Second action in the past = past simple

               past perfect                       past simple                                                          

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Past Simple <> Past Perfect
Before we ____ (to go) to the party, we _____ (to go) to the cinema.

1. went / went
2. had gone / had gone
3. went / had gone
4. had gone / went

Past simple / past perfect:
__________ (to phone) Angie before he __________ ( to go) to London?

1. Did he phone - went
2. Did he phoned - gone
3. Did he phone - had gone
4. Had he phoned - went

Past simple / past perfect:
The storm _______ (to destroy) the sandcastle that we _______ (to build).

1. destroys - build
2. had destroyed - built
3. destroyed - had build
4. destroyed - had built

Past Simple <> Past Perfect
After Richard _____ (to study) biology, he _____ (to study) maths.

1. studied / studied
2. had studied / had studied
3. studied / had studied
4. had studied / studied

Past simple / past perfect:
The waiter __________ (to bring) the drink that I _______ (to order).

1. bring - order
2. had brought - ordered
3. brought - had ordered
4. brings - was ordering

Past Simple <> Past Perfect
Before Clark _____ (to call) the police, Sue _____ (to call) the fire department.

1. called / called
2. had called / had called
3. called / had called
4. had called / called

Ik begrijp de Past Simple en Past Perfect én kan ze toepassen in een zin.

Op zich wel, maar ik oefen nog wel wat ermee.

Lastig, maar door veel oefenen gaat het vast lukken.

Snap er geen bal van! Help mij!