Name: Past Perfect Simple We form the Past Perfect Simple by using the auxiliary verb had and a verb in Past Participle: Ex Before the play was over, I had cried at least three times We use the Past Perfect Simple for: • An action Name: which happened before another action in the past Ex When I arrived to the movie theater, the movie had finished Example It was in Mrs John’s class thatthe we noticed hadn´t • We can use time clausesshe (when, after,come before)to to link two events in the past school We use the Past Perfect Simple for the event that took place first and the Past Simple for the more recent event Rewrite the following sentences theirhad negative form Ex Manyin people left, before the band started playing Exercises: In negative sentences, we add not to the auxiliary verb had He had been to New York before _ _ She had gone home before dark _ _ a I had left the office Mathew had finished eating before d I arrived When Tracy got home b She had never been to France _ Derek had paid full price _ _ c Before I got the promotion Before thebought fire started _ Liz3.and Mary had everything they needed by 5:00 pm d She noticed somebody had broken _ I had applied for another job _ _ into it Before now _ Tony had built his own house by the age of 25 e Because everybody else had Thomas won the price _ _ forgotten to turn in their projects _ Before he realized there was a Match the two columns to make full sentences as in the example discount f P u t t h e Answer Key v e r 1 had started had eaten had finished had seen had had 2 He hadn’t been to New York before She hadn’t gone home before dark Mathew hadn’t finished eating before I arrived Liz and Mary hadn’t bought everything they needed by 5:00 pm Tony hadn’t built his own house by the age of 25 3 d f a c b e