simple presentation for Past Perfect Tense disclaimer: if there are mistakes, sorry, I'm not that kind of a perfect grammar teacher

1. PAST PERFECT
TENSE

2. What is the Past Perfect Tense?
• The Past Perfect Tense expresses
the idea that something happened
before another action in the past.
• It can also say that something
happened before a specific time in
the past

3. Example:
• I had never seen a beautiful girl like her
before I went to San Fernando.

4. What is the difference of Past
Tense and Past Perfect Tense?
PAST TENSE
• You have a specific
time phrase
(yesterday, last night,
last week, few weeks
ago, few hours ago).
PAST PERFECT TENSE
• You don’t have a
specific time phrase
because the time is
not that important.

5. example
PAST TENSE
• She went to the
market yesterday.
PAST PERFECT TENSE
• She had gone to
the market before
she went to school.

6. Write PT if the sentence is in Past
Tense, and PPT if the sentence is
in Past Perfect Tense.

7. 1. The woman carried her child along the
crowded people yesterday morning.
2. I had never written anything before you came
in the house.
3. Before Carlo talked to me, I had seen him
eating the cake.
4. I cleaned the house, in the kitchen, in my
bedroom, and even in our attic.
5. Before I left for work, I ate my breakfast at our
dining table.