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Signal words
no unambiguous ones
Form
had + past participle
Examples
Affirmative sentences:
I had played hockey.
I'd played hockey.
Negative sentences:
I had not played hockey.
I'd not played hockey.
I hadn't played hockey.
Questions:
Had you played hockey?
Attention
irregular verbs
Negative sentences
regular verbs
irregular verbs
Questions
regular verbs
irregular verbs
negative sentence
question
negative sentence
question
2) be as a full verb
affirmative sentence
negative sentence
question
3) do as a full verb
affirmative sentence
NOTE:
We sometimes use short/contracted forms for had with affirmative or negative
sentences.
Long forms and short forms in the Past Perfect
We often use short forms of the auxiliaries. The Past Perfect is formed with the
auxiliary had.
affirmative
long form
short form
I'd gone
long form
short form
I hadn't gone
or
I'd not gone
Exercises
Put in the verbs in brackets into the gaps and form sentences in the Past Perfect.
Use contracted forms only when there are personal pronouns.
Example: Before Steven did his homework he _____________ at the library. (to
study)
Answer: Before Steven did his homework he had studied at the library.
1) She
2) After we
Put in the verbs in brackets into the gaps. Mind the negations.
Example: Richard realized that he ______________ his passport with him. (not/to
take)
Answer: Richard realized that he had not taken his passport with him.
1) The driver
him. (not/to stop)
6) He told me that he
7) Lisa
8) The Smiths
new furniture. (not/to buy)
Put in the words in brackets into the gaps. Use the verbs in the Past Perfect .
Example: _____________________ the summary by the time it was due? (Gerry/to
hand in)
Answer: Had Gerry handed in the summary by the time it was due?
1)
(they/to read)
2)
the new words before she texted her friend? (the girl/to learn)
3)
4) What
5)
update)
6) What
7)
8)
9)
10)
Put the words in brackets into the gaps. Use the verbs in the Past Perfect.
Example: Alex couldn't go for a walk because he ______________ his leg. (to break)
Answer: Alex couldn't go for a walk because he had broken his leg.
a glass of water.
Put the verbs in brackets into the gaps in the correct tense Past Perfect or Simple
Past.
Example: Pat _________ (to live) in London before he _________ (to move) to
Rome.
Answer: Pat had lived in London before he moved to Rome.
1) After Fred
learn Italian.
2) Jill
trip.
3) Susan
4) When she
start).
5) After the man
6) Before he
7) She
8) After Eric
(to want) to
(to leave) for her
(to wash) the dishes.
already
(to
9) I
10) They
friends.
Put the verbs into the correct form (past perfect simple).
The storm destroyed the sandcastle that we (build)
He (not / be)
her homework.
the bus.
on ego4u.
The mail order house did not send me the shirt that I (order)
I had to clean the floor because my cats (knock)
My friend was in hospital because she (slip)
.
over the flower pots.
on a banana skin.
5. They
6. You
7. She really
8. Amy
9. We
places.
10. I
11. They
(help) her.
(take) the test.
(reserve) our
(succeed).
13. Sharon
15. You
12. Chris
14. I
(move) to Canada.
(sell) it.
(move) to Spain.
(be) so hungry.
2. They
(move) together.
3. He
4. When we
(arrive), we
5. When I
(call), she
7. He
9. They
(arrive).
10. It
(be) embarrassed.
(buy) the house.
(tell) us he
(tell) us they
(leave).
(go) to sleep.
6. Ashley
8. Patrick
(start) to crawl.
1. When she
(deliver) a small
4. The Romans
5. I wish that I
6. If only he
8. If we
9. She
10. We
news.
(tell) him before about her illness so he was prepared for the bad
hard, Joan
it before. (hear-be)
his life
8. He
at Brenda and for a moment he
truth. (look- tell-doubt)
10. He
. (start-get)
5. When David
resume)
already
him, he already
whether she
he
him the
When I (show)
already)
out their applications and were already leaving. The
landlord said I could still apply, so I did.
I (try)
(prepare)
fired.
4. When I (turn)
song that was popular when I was in high school. I (hear, not)
the song in years, and it (bring)
5. Last week, I (run)
not)
10
not)
(grow)
a beard. He looked totally different!
7. The Maya established a very advanced civilization in the jungles of the
Yucatan; however, their culture (disappear, virtually)
by the time Europeans first (arrive)
8. I (visit)
(come)
never)
.(to steal)
3. I
your membership
8. They
Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or present perfect simple).
Mother: I want to prepare dinner. (you / wash)
Daughter: I (wash)
the time yet to do it today.
your homework?
when I (arrive)
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Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or present perfect simple).
A: (you / be / ever)
to London?
B: Yes, I (be)
A: When (be)
there?
(you / like)
it?
to London.
Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or present perfect simple).
A: (you / buy)
B: Yes, I (go)
there?
a friend to the station in the morning. His
at 9:45.
A: (you / pack)
the tickets.
Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or present perfect simple).
A: (you / play / already)
A: (you / go)
B: Yes. I (be)
cinema recently?
A: I last (go)
to the
it?
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it - too much
me last
action films.
Put the verbs into the correct form (simple past or present perfect).
My friends (visit)
I (be / never)
But I (see)
in Canada?
Claude: I (study)
2. I (have)
buying a new one.
the same car for more than ten years. I'm thinking about
3. I (love)
"chocoholic."
5. John (work)
(become)
7. I (see)
(see)
Judy for more than five years and during that time I
many changes in her personality.
Put each of the following verbs into either the present perfect or present perfect
continuous.
Why are your hands dirty? - Oh I
(work) in the garden.
It's nine o'clock. Jack
4 hours tonight.
(teach) for
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I
company for a long time.
(work) at this
Brad
long time.
Why are you shaking so? What
(you/do)?
Lucky Susan she
different countries!
(visit) so many
I
5 years.
He
job.
Nick
Some of my students
years.
It's a quarter to nine! I
over three hours!
(wait) for
(ever/drive) a Rolls Royce?
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