MEMBER:

MICHELLE DABLIO
BRYAN
PAGALAN
JOVELYN
INOCENCIO
ERJEAN
PAGUIDIAN
MS. KATRINA BUHIAN
Professor

What Is the Past Tense?

-The past perfect tense is used to emphasize
that an action was completed before another took
place.
-indicates that an action was completed
(finished or
"perfected") at some point in
the past before something else happened. This
tense is formed with the past tense form of "to
have" (HAD) plus the past participle of the verb
(which can be either regular or irregular in
form):

Forming the Past Perfect Tense

The past perfect tense is formed:
had + [the past participle]
For example:
I had jumped
I had met

Forming the Past Participle (Regular Verbs)

If it's a regular verb, the past participle is the same as the simple past
tense. In other words, it is formed like this:
Add "ed" to most verbs:
jump > jumped
paint > painted

Forming the Past Participle (Irregular Verbs)

If it's an irregular verb, the past participle is formed in all sorts of
different ways. Here are some examples:
arise > arisen
catch > caught
choose > chosen
know > known

We use the past perfect tense fairly often in English.

1: A completed action before something else in the past.
When we arrived, the film had started. (= first the film started, then
later we arrived)
2: To explain or give a reason for something in the past.
I'd eaten dinner so I wasn't hungry.
It had snowed in the night, so the bus didn't arrive.
: Stative verbs only: something that started in the past and
continued up to another action in the past.
When he graduated, he had been in London for six years.
(= he arrived in London six years before he graduated and lived there
continuously until he graduated, or even longer)
4: As part of the third conditional.
If I had known you were ill, I would have visited you.

Examples of the Past Perfect Tense

Here are some examples of the past perfect tense (shaded):
*Silverfinger

had taken the pill before the team reached

him.
(First: He took the pill. Next: The team reached him.)
*I had called the police before I investigated the noise in
the garden.
(First: I called the police. Next: I investigated the noise.)
*The weather changed, but the team had planned its
next move.
(First: The team planned. Next: The weather changed.)

Of course, you can also have the negative version, which is

formed "had not" + "[past particple]":
*Silverfinger

had not taken the pill before the

team reached him.
*I had not called the police before I investigated
the noise in the garden.
*The weather changed, and the team had not
planned its next move.
And, the question versions:
*Had

Silverfinger taken the pill before the team

reached him?
*Had the team planned its next move before the
weather changed?