Past Perfect
https://youtube.com/shorts/P1CMRvwsgDM?si=C1E4V7al2AgqpCl2 Past Perfect Forming the Past Perfect The past perfect is formed with "had" + the past participle of the main verb: I had finished the work. She had gone home. The past perfect continuous is formed with "had been" + the -ing form of the verb: I had been working there for a year. They had been painting the bedroom. Using the Past Perfect The past perfect is used similarly to the present perfect, but it refers to an action completed before another past action or time . We use the past perfect: For actions that started in the past and continued up to a specific past time: When George died, he and Anne had been married for nearly fifty years. She didn’t want to move. She had lived in Liverpool all her life. To show that one past action happened before another: When I arrived, the train had already left . She ...