The document discusses the past perfect tense of verbs. It defines the past perfect tense as expressing an action completed in the past before another action happened. Examples are provided of sentences in the past and past perfect tense. Students practice identifying the tense of verbs in sentences and forming the past perfect tense of regular and irregular verbs. Exercises have students complete sentences using the past perfect tense.

1. Compose clear and coherent
sentences using appropriate
grammatical structures:
Aspect of Verbs
(Past Perfect Tense)

2. Review tenses of verbs.
What are the three tenses of
verbs?

3. Read the sentences and identify the
tense of verbs used. Write PR for
present tense, PA for past tense,
and F for future tense.

4. 1. A mosquito saw an iguana. _____
2. The iguana grumbles to himself.
___
3. The iguana will pass by the
python. _____

5. 4. The python went into a rabbit hole.
_____
5. The rabbit sees the big snake. _____
6. The monkey will screech and will
leap through the trees. _____

6. This timeline shows the simple
tenses of verbs.

7. This timeline shows the perfect
tenses of verbs.

8. The past perfect expresses an action completed in
the past before another action happened.
The present perfect expresses an action that was
completed sometime in the past or is still
continuing in the present.
The future perfect describes an action that will still
be completed sometime in the future.

9. Today, we will focus on the past
perfect tense of verbs.
Study the underlined words and
the sentences in the table.

10. Past Tense Past Perfect
The big snake
raised his head.
The big snake had
raised his head
before
he greeted iguana.

11. King Lion called King Lion had
had called a
meeting before
before the
animals
arrived.

12. She turned her
head toward the
east.
She had turned
her head toward
the east
before she called
the sun to come.

13. Did you notice that the word had is
added to the past tense of the verb to
form the past perfect?
The past perfect tense shows that an
action is completed in the past before
another happened.

14. Look at the words added to had. The
past tense of verbs is changed to the
past participle form.
Past participle of verbs expresses
completed action and that is one of the
principal parts of the verb.

15. Take a look at the list of verbs, their
past participle form, and the past
perfect form.
Regular Past Past Irregular Past Past
Verbs Participle Perfect Verbs Participle Perfect
believe believed had drink drunk had drunk
believed
compare compared had see seen had seen
compared

16. Regular Past Past Irregular Past Past
snap snapped had speak spoken had
snapped spoken
grumble grumbled had begin begun had begun
grumbled

17. Verbs Past Participle Past perfect
bake
brush
answer
swim
sweep
Pairing Up:
With your seatmate, complete the table:

18. Group work:
As a group, give the past perfect tense of the given
words. Then, use them in sentences.
Verbs Past Perfect tense Sentences
create
choose
take
destroy
make

19. GENERALIZATION:
When do we use the
past perfect tense of the
verb?
What do these show?

20. EVALUATION:
Use the past perfect tense of verb to
complete the sentence.
1. The pedestrians (cross) ________
the street before the light turned
red.

21. EVALUATION:
2. The teacher (teach) ______ the
lesson well before the bell rung.
3. The farmer (plant) ______ crops
before the rain poured.

22. EVALUATION:
4. Molly (want) ______ a guitar, but
she received a book.
5. I (use) ______ that pen before it
was lost.

23. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY:
Give the past perfect tense of the given words. Then, use
them in sentences.
Verbs Past Perfect
tense
Sentences
win
clap
Jog
run
watch