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    The document discusses the past perfect and past perfect continuous tenses in English. It outlines their forms and uses. The past perfect is used to refer to actions that occurred before other past actions or events. It can also express unfulfilled wishes or indirect speech. The past perfect continuous emphasizes the duration of a past activity up until another point in the past. Both tenses are used to refer to past time frames or situations.

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    The document discusses the past perfect and past perfect continuous tenses in English. It outlines their forms and uses. The past perfect is used to refer to actions that occurred before other past actions or events. It can also express unfulfilled wishes or indirect speech. The past perfect continuous emphasizes the duration of a past activity up until another point in the past. Both tenses are used to refer to past time frames or situations.

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    THE PAST PERFECT IN

    ENGLISH
    PAST PERFECT SIMPLE
    FORM
     AFFIRMATIVE e.g. The boy explained that
    (Sb + had + 3vb) he had seen her in the
    garden.

     NEGATIVE e.g. The boy hadn’t seen


    her in the garden that
    (Sb + had not + 3vb) day.

     INTERROGATIVE e.g. Had the boy seen


    (Had + sb + 3vb) her…?
    USE
    1. Past action before e.g. She came home after
    another action/ moment Dan had done his
    in the past homework.
    e.g. By the time the rain
    started he had dug the
    2. Duration up to a certain garden.
    time in the past
    e.g. We did not know that
    3. + just, already he had already repaired
    our car.
    + hardly/barely/no
    sooner … Hardly had we entered that
    they knocked at the door.
    than+inversion
    4. + for/since e.g. In 2000, I had been a
    (past reference) teacher for two years.

    5. Indirect Speech- to e.g. Nick said he had seen


    express anteriority (past that film the week before.
    reference)

    6. To express a past e.g. I would have told her if


    conditional in if-clauses I had met her.
    type 3
    7. Unfulfilled wish e.g. I wish/wished I had not
    missed that part.

    8. + had/would rather (with e.g. I’d rather you hadn’t


    different sb) found out like that.
    + as if/ as though He acts as if he had been
    the boss. (but he isn’t)
    9. To express a future
    activity before another e.g. I told him that I would
    activity expressed by lend him the book when I
    Future-in-the-Past. had finished it
    PAST PERFECT
    CONTINUOUS
    FORM
     AFFIRMATIVE e.g. She had been reading
    for 5 hours…
    (Sb+had been+vb+ing)

     NEGATIVE e.g. She hadn’t been


    (sb+hadn’t reading…
    been+vb+ing)

     INTERROGATIVE e.g. Had she been waiting


    for a long time?
    (had+sb+been+vb+ing
    USE
    1. To emphasise e.g. They had been
    duration of past practising for days
    activity before when the concert
    another past activity started.

    2. Indirect Speech to e.g. He explained that


    reflect a he had been watching
    past/pres.perf TV for one hour only.
    continuous in DS

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