Past perfect

Basic rules

Simple past: The simple past is the first form of the past. If you want to explain something with a time word, you always use the simple past.

Past perfect: If you want to explain something that happens before something other in the past, you use the past perfect.

Example: "But Elizabeth I never really knew her mother because she had died in 1536".

Deeper explaination

Simple Past: You build the simple past with the time word for example "yesterday", a pronoun for example "I" ,a verb for example "was/were" or for example an activity like "fishing".

Example: "Yesterday I was fishing".

Past perfect:You build the past perfect with a personal prounuon for example "She", "had", a word like "already" or "just" a,form of the Past progressive for example "made" and another word.

Example: "She had alredy made the bed

Exercises

I __________ (be happy) when my dad ______ (tell) me that we would ______ (go) to the Cinema. he ________ (say) that he ________ (see) a great movie and he would like to ________ (watch) it.

yesterday my mum _______ (go)fishing with me. After we _______ (arrive) at the lake my mum ________ (can not find) her rod. But she _______ (be) happy as she ______ (find) it. It ______ (be) a great time.