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  1. Worksheets: past perfect simple and past perfect continuous. Printable exercises pdf, handouts to print.

  2. The past perfect (simple) tense is used to describe an action that has been completed before another past action. It is also used to describe an action that happened in the distant past (when it is understood that other actions have happened since that action).

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  4. Use the prompts to make a past perfect sentence with “by the time” and “already.” Ex. I missed my plane. (airport / plane take off) By the time I got to the airport, the plane had already taken off. 1. I missed the show. (theatre / movie start) 2. I couldn’t get my prescription. (drugstore / close) 3.

  5. Past perfect tense. When there are two actions that happened in the past, we use past perfect for the earlier action. Formation. We form the past perfect simple with had + past participle. Some verbs are ‘regular’, other verbs are ‘irregular’: The past participle of regular verbs has an –ed ending (work – worked).

  6. The past simple is used for actions that happened some time ago. The past perfect is used for actions that happened before a point of time in the past. Jim returned at 4 o'clock. He had called Jane on the way back home and now she appeared at the door.

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  7. Past perfect simple exercise 1. Complete the sentences. Use the past perfect simple and the past simple tense. Past perfect simple exercise 2. Use the verbs in brackets to complete the sentences. Past perfect simple exercise 3 (multiple choice) Choose the correct answers to complete short conversations. Past perfect simple exercise 4 (dialogue)

  8. 1. A: __________ Jim ever (fly) ______________ before his flight last week? B: Yes, he __________. 2. A: __________ your sister (eat) _________________ breakfast before she left? B: No, she __________. 3. James said he ___________ already (see) _________________ the movie last year. 4.

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