Past Perfect Tense Last month Ben Taylor visited his old school He found out that many things had changed Fill in the verbs in past perfect tense Mr Havers was no longer there He (leave) the school six years before When Ben was at the school, (not build) the games oom yet Miss Smith was now Mrs Smith, and Miss Brown, the Maths teacher, (become) Mrs Rossi They (marry) othe teachers several years before Ben’s lovely old wooden desk wasn’t there any more The school (buy) new plastic ones His old classroom was no longer grey It (be) painted green Ben didn’t meet his old form teacher She _ _ (die) in 2008 Use the simple past or past pefect When the ship (sink), they (be) at sea for a month After Lenny (see) a film about Captain Cook, he (decide) to read a book about im When Captain Scott (reach) the South Pole he (find) that the explorer Amundsen (already be) there Anne (never ride) on an elephant befoe she (go) to London Zoo When Mrs Carry finally (get) to the bus stop, the bus (already leave) When Mr Gilbert (look) at the signpost, he (realize) that he (take) the wrong road Mrs Green (arrive) at the post office at 12.30, but it (close) half an hour earlier Match the right sentence parts and make senseable sentences When Christopher Columbus died he still didn’t realize Some people say that Columbus didn’t really discover America After sailmakers had made a new kind of sail, In spite of what Columbus had told his sailors, After Amerigo Vespucci had sailed south to Brazil, Columbus knew that there must be land to the west, people in Euope understood what Columbus had really done it was possible to sail against the wind that he had found a new world after he had seen pieces of bamboo on a beach in Portugal because Leif Ericson had landed in Canada in about 980 after four weeks at sea there was still no land in sight