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    Ling Chin Chuan Low Ying Yee Amir Akmal Lee Seo Lin Mohd Idris

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    The past perfect tense is used to indicate that one past event occurred before another past event. It is formed using the past tense of the auxiliary verb "had" plus the past participle of the main verb. The past perfect tense helps provide clarity about the order of past events when describing a sequence or story. It can be used to show that one action was completed before a specific point in the past.

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    The past perfect tense is used to indicate that one past event occurred before another past event. It is formed using the past tense of the auxiliary verb "had" plus the past participle of the main verb. The past perfect tense helps provide clarity about the order of past events when describing a sequence or story. It can be used to show that one action was completed before a specific point in the past.

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    The past perfect tense is used to indicate that one past event occurred before another past event. It is formed using the past tense of the auxiliary verb "had" plus the past participle of the main verb. The past perfect tense helps provide clarity about the order of past events when describing a sequence or story. It can be used to show that one action was completed before a specific point in the past.

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    Ling Chin Chuan Low Ying Yee Amir Akmal Lee Seo Lin Mohd Idris

    The past perfect tense is often used in English when we are relating two events which happened in the past. It helps to show which event happened first

    made

    with the auxiliary verb had + past participle (which is different for regular and irregular verbs: -ed ending for regular verbs, e.g. worked, travelled, tried, different forms for irregular verbs, e.g. written, made, sung).

    Positive Subject + had + past participle You/ He/ She/ They had finished before I arrived. Negative Subject + had + not (hadn't) + past participle I/ You/ She/ We/ They hadn't eaten before he finished the job.

    The rules, using the regular verb arrive and the irregular verb eat
    Subjek Have Past Pasticiple Contraction

    I You He She It
    We They

    had had had had had


    had had

    arrived. eaten. arrived. eaten. arrived. eaten. arrived. eaten. arrived. eaten.
    arrived. eaten. arrived. eaten.

    Id arrived. Id eaten. Youd arrived. Youd eaten. Hed arrived. Hed eaten. Shed arrived. Shed eaten. Itd arrived. Itd eaten.
    Wed arrived. Wed eaten. Theyd arrived. Theyd eaten.

    The past perfect is used to show you which of two events happened first. Imagine that two things happened in the past:

    I went to see the movie.


    We discussed the movie in class.
    Here, we don't know which order the events happened in. That may be important -- perhaps I went to see the movie after the discussion, or maybe I saw the movie before the discussion. There are many ways to make this sequence clear, and the past perfect is one of them.

    I went to see the movie. We had discussed it in class.


    Here, we know that the discussion took place first-- even though the sentence describing it comes afterwards. We discussed the movie, and then I went to see it.
    This can be very useful when you are telling a story or relating a sequence of events. At any point in your story, you can jump back to a previous event, and your reader will not be confused, because the past perfect will make it clear that the event happened previously.

    Example: 1.The door bell rang at last. I had been in the room since breakfast. 2. When I arrived there Sarah had already left. 3. I was so hungry! I had not eaten anything since the morning. Explain: 1. The bell rang at noon. I came in the morning before that. 2.I arrived after lunch. Sarah went home before lunch. 3.It was late at night.

    Past prefect also used to refer to activities that were completed before a point of time.

    Example:

    1. In 2005 I had lived in the same place for ten years. 2. Had you ever travelled by plane before your holiday in Spain?

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