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Past perfect simple

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Past perfect simple is used toshow that an action took place once or many times before another point in the past.

Form:

Positive: Subject + had + verb (past participle)
Negative: Subject + had + not + verb (past participle)
Interrogative: Had + subject + verb (past participle)
Keywords: by, before, for, by the time, after, never, ever, already, when, since

Exercises - Past perfect simple

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  • 1) Before I came here, I spoke had spoken to Jim.


  • 2) They knew Paris so well because he visited had visited the city several times.


  • 3) We studied had studied French before I moved to France.


  • 4) She wasn't in her office. She had left left .


  • 5) Were you ever Had you ever been in America?


  • 6) She had already left has left when I got home.


  • 7) He has cleaned had cleaned the house by 7 o'clock.


  • 8) Yes, I had been was to the US once before.


  • 9) You hadn't studied didn't study English before you moved to New York.


  • 10) Theo did finish had finished cooking dinner before Sophie arrived.


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