past perfect tense

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• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3,4

past perfect tense

past perfect simple: had+ wwed/3e rij

past perfect continuous:had+been+wwing

Wanneer gebruik je een past perfect?

1 als er in een zin 2 dingen gebeuren in de verleden tijd maar niet op hetzelfde moment dan staat de gebeurtenis het dichtste bij het heden in de verleden tijd (past tense)en de gebeurtenis het verste van het heden in de voltooid verleden tijd ( past perfect)

 2  je gebruikt de past perfect om aan te geven dat iets in het verre verleden begonnen is en in het verleden nog bezig was (dus echt verleden tijd van present perfect) van (verre) toen tot toen

Explain why these sentences are in the past perfect tense.

1 She told me yesterday that she had seen me on the train.

  

2 My dad had been working  in the garden for 3 hours when my grandmother rang.

3 When we bought this house in 1980 it had been empty for ten years.

4 When we moved into this house ten years ago it had been burgled three times.

Key

1had been trying

2had had

3 had waited

4had already picked up

5 had already picked up

6had been waiting

7 had almost given up

8had gone

9 had been

1o had missed

Past perfect simple

1) Two things in the past happened, the thing that happened first is in past perfect, and the other event which is closer to the present is the past tense.

          After they had hiked up the mountain, they took a shower. 

Past perfect continuous

Continuous = duration of the event is important

• I had been chopping wood all morning when her sister arrived. (past perfect continuous)
• He had been waiting for an hour when I arrived. (past perfect continuous)
• She had been working on her project for weeks when she realised  she had used the wrong data. ) (past perfect continuous)

Before he went out, Fred ...................(eat)

1. ate
2. had eaten
3. was eating
4. eaten

past perfect continuous

How: Past perfect <have/had + participle> + continuous <to be + ing>

     had + been (participle) + -ing

I had been trying to get tickets for that play for months, and I nearly missed it

Remember: action interrupted by another = also past continuous and past simple

As soon as I __________(finish) my homework, I ____ (go) out.

1. have finished, went
2. had finished, go
3. had finished, went

Past perfect vs Past simple:
When we ... (enter) the cinema, the film .... (start, already)

1. had entered, already started
2. entered, had already started

De past perfect maak je met:

1. had + 2e rijtje of -ed
2. did + 2e rijtje of -ed
3. had + 3e rijtje of -ed
4. did + 3 rijtje of -ed

Past Perfect van 'give'

1. gave
2. have given
3. had given
4. was giving

Voltooid deelwoord van "know"

1. knowed
2. known
3. knew
4. knewed

Past Perfect

1. when something started and stopped in the past
2. when something went on for a while in the past
3. when something happened before something else in the past
4. when something started in the past in goes on until the present

Hoe maak je de Past perfect simple?

1. was/were + ww + ing
2. am/is/are+ going to+ hele werkwoord
3. have/has + volt.deelwoord
4. had + volt.deelwoord

Past Perfect van "tell"

1. told
2. talled
3. had talled
4. had told

My father died last year.

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

When we arrived, the movie had started.

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

They were eating at the restaurant.

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

I had been working at the company for five years when I got the promotion.

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

They were waiting for the bus when the accident happened.

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

He lived in Fiji in 1976.

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

After Sofie had finished her work, she went to lunch.

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

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.

When do you use the past perfect continuous?

1. when a past action happened before another action
2. when a past action happened before another, no idea who did it
3. when a past action happened
4. when an ongoing past action happened before another action

De past perfect gebruik je als iets....

1. in het verleden is begonnen en nu nog bezig is
2. in het verleden een tijdje bezig was, maar nu is afgelopen
3. in het verleden is gebeurd maar je ziet nu het resultaat
4. in het verleden is gebeurd en 't gebeurde vóór iets anders

Which sentence uses the past perfect is correctly?

1. Yesterday I ate my breakfast and after that I went to school.
2. I have eaten breakfast before I went to school yesterday.
3. I had eaten my breakfast before I went to school yesterday.
4. I am having breakfast before I went to school yesterday.

We ..... (to tell, past perfect continuous).

1. We were telling
2. We had told
3. We had been telling
4. We have been telling

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

Put in the past perfect continuous.
They ______ for a romantic dinner. (hope)

Fill in the Past Perfect/ Past Simple:
After she______ (pass) her test, she ______ (throw) a party.

Put in the past perfect continuous.
He _____ this moment. (dread)

Fill in using the past perfect:
They said he ....... ........... (buy) a new bike.

Put in the past perfect continuous.
My friends _____ for hours. (text)

Put in the past perfect continuous.
She ______ this song for hours. (sing)

Fill in: past simple/ past perfect
I ....(play) Tennis, when it ....(start) to rain.

Put in the past perfect continuous.
We ______ of a wonderful holiday. (dream)

key

1.- had never gone

2.- had already bought

3.- caught

4.- had split

5.- knew / had told

6.- hadn’t eaten / were

7.- hugged / had finished

8.- had already seen

9.- had just bought / stole

10.- had been / was

11.- raised / had seen

12.- hadn’t eaten

13.- gave / hadn’t finished

14.- had lost