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Affirmative |
She had won. |
Negative |
She had not won. |
Interrogative |
Had she won? |
Form |
had + past participle (past participle of regular
verbs: verb + ed | Past participle of irregular verbs: forms differ and
should be learned by heart.
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Uses |
- action taking place before a certain time in the past
- sometimes interchangeable with past perfect progressive
- putting emphasis only on the fact (not the duration)
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Past Perfect Simple
Past perfect tense
Form of the past perfect simple:
Affirmative |
Negative |
Interrogative |
I had worked. |
I had not worked. |
had I worked? |
You had worked. |
You had not worked. |
had you worked? |
NOTE:
I had not worked = I hadn't worked
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I had worked = I'd worked |
Use of the past perfect simple:
Use the past perfect tense to show an action that was completed prior to another action that took place in the past.
Examples:
- "President Lincoln had attended the theater regularly before his assassination."
- "They had had lunch when I arrived."
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