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Welcome to this tutorial today.

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We're going to talk about the past perfect tense.

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Let's get started.

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Now we use the past perfect to show clearly that one past event happened before another past event.

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Note that we use the past perfect in the earlier event.

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Have a look at the example over here.

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When I arrived at the party Tom wasn't there.

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He had gone home.

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Note that the sentence he had gone home is in the past perfect tense and it's used to talk about what

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happened before I arrived at the party

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now to form the past perfect.

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We use had plus verb EDI or just the verb and the negative hadn't.

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Plus verb EDI or just the verb.

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Have a look at the examples over here.

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Question form had Kate gone to bed when you arrived home.

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Positive sentence yes she had she had gone to bed when I arrived home she'd gone to bed negative sentence

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no she hadn't she hadn't gone to bed when I arrived home.

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Note that the past perfect I had done is the past of the present perfect I have done half a look at

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the differences below present I'm not hungry I've just had breakfast.

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Your room is dirty you haven't cleaned it for months past I wasn't hungry I just had breakfast.

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Your room was dirty you hadn't cleaned it for months

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now we can use the past perfect with phrases such as to think no be sure realize remember suspect understand

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etc..

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Have a look at the examples below.

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She was sure she hadn't locked the door when I got home I realized I'd left my computer at Starbucks

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no many speakers use the past perfect in case of before or after to show a strong connection between

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the two events.

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Have a look at the following sentences.

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Pam left her house before her parents arrived.

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Now this sentence is in the past simple and in this sentence Pam had left her house before her parents

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arrived.

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Now this is a past simple plus past perfect.