Past Perfect

• Form: I/We/You/They had played

                           He/ She/It           had played

                                         Had + P.P

• Use 

• When two actions are in the past and one precedes the other , the first in time is put in the past perfect.

• The past perfect is used in the following cases:

• To talk about things that was completed before a past action.

             e.g. He didn’t go to bed until he had done his homework

•  To say what we wanted or hoped to do , but didn’t.

         e.g. I had wanted to go with you to the stadium , but my mother was very sick.     

                I had hoped to leave the party earlier , but they persuaded me to stay  

• To describe a period of time leading up to a past time.

e.g. By 1945 , the WWII had finished.

• To report what people had said

                           “Jack broke his leg yesterday”

                             He said that Jack had broken his leg the day before.

• The past perfect is used with: after , before , until,  till, as soon as…etc.

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