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Past Perfect

Past Perfect

Date: Oct 03 2007

Topic: Grammar

Author: rhyme_reason

Lesson

We use the past perfect simple to talk about what happened before a point in the past. It looks back from a point in the past to further in the past.

  • I hadn't known the bad news when I spoke to him.
  • I checked with the supplier and they still hadn't received the contract.
  • She had already told him before I got a chance to give him my version.
  • The company has started the year well but was badly hit by the postal strike.

The past perfect simple is often used when we report what people had said/thought/believed.

  • He told me they had already paid the bill.
  • He said he believed that John had moved to Italy.
  • I thought we had already decided on a name for this product.

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mileycyrus

India

i have confusion abt had/have but due to this lesson i understand wht is the diffrence between had/have

thank u!!

11:30 AM Jul 08 2009 |

^Farah^

^Farah^

Indonesia

great

07:51 AM May 19 2009 |

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