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    PAST PERFECT

    To talk about an
    To talk about an event that finished
    event that finished before a specific
    before another time in the past.
    event.

    Jennifer had
    Carol had made already left
    dinner when I by the time
    arrived home. we got there.

    We usually use the past perfect to make it clear which action happened
    first. Maybe we are already talking about something in the past and we
    want to mention something else that is further back in time. This is often
    used to explain or give a reason for something in the past.
    1: A finished action before a second point in the past.

     When we arrived, the film had started (= first the film started, then
    we arrived).
     It had snowed in the night, so the bus didn't arrive.

    If it's clear which action happened first (if we use the words
    'before' or 'after', for example), the past perfect is optional:

     The film started before we arrived / the film had started before
    we arrived.
    2: Something that started in the past and continued up to
    another action or time in the past. The past perfect tells us
    'how long', just like the present perfect, but this time the action
    continues up to a point in the past rather than the present.
    Usually we use 'for + time'. We can also use the past perfect
    continuous here, so we most often use the past perfect simple
    with stative verbs.

     When he graduated, he had been in London for six years. (= He


    arrived in London six years before he graduated and lived there
    until he graduated, or even longer.)
     On the 20th of July, I'd worked here for three months.

    3: To talk about unreal or imaginary things in the past. In


    the same way that we use the past simple to talk about unreal or
    imaginary things in the present, we use the past perfect (one step
    back in time) to talk about unreal things in the past. This is
    common in the third conditional and after 'wish'.

     If I had known you were ill, I would have visited you.


     She would have passed the exam if she had studied harder.
     I wish I hadn't gone to bed so late!

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