Past perfect simple

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• Secondary Education

Past perfect

De past perfect wordt gebruikt om een gebeurtenis in het verleden aan te duiden die daarvoor al is afgelopen.

the past in the past (het verleden in het verleden)

In het nederlands de voltooid verleden tijd

The train left at 0900, we arrived at 0915.

When we arrived, the train had left

Opbouw

Pronoun + to have + verb + ed (Regelmatig)

I had called

Pronoun + to have + past participle verb (onregelmatig)

She had driven

Let op!

Het hulp w.w. to have moet dus in de verleden tijd vervoegd zijn.

I had called

You had called

He/she/it had called

we had called

you had called

they had called

Afkortingen

In het (vooral brits) Engels zien we nog wel eens de afkorting:

I'd (you'd,she'd,we'd,they'd)

Dit staat voor "i had"

After she'd done her work, she went to lunch

Er zijn erg veel onregelmatige w.w.

Negations

Ook in de verleden tijd kunnen wij dingen ontkennen. 

Past simple:

Pronoun+ to do + not + verb 

I did not walk

Past perfect:

Pronoun + to have + not + verb past participle

I had not walked

Vragen

Past perfect:

to have + pronoun +   + verb past participle

had I walked

Engels	Nederlands
After	Na
Before	Voor
Because	Omdat
Right after	Precies na
As soon as	Zo snel als
in 2012	in 2012
When	Wanneer / toen

Signaalwoorden

Voorbeelden

1.  Right after he had shouted to me, he ran away.
   
2. Before they went to the city, they had finished the game.
   
3. I planned to go on holiday, when I had heard about the cheap ticket prices.
   
4. As soon as we had finished our drinks, we went to school.
   
5. You were surprised, because you had never seen anything like this.

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