The document provides information about the past perfect tense in English grammar. It explains that the past perfect is used to describe an action that was completed before another past action. It gives the example sentence "I had already spoken to Jack when I came here." It also provides the formation of the past perfect tense using auxiliary verbs and past participles. Several examples of transforming verbs into the past perfect tense are given. The document concludes by asking the reader to transform verbs into either the positive or negative past perfect simple form.

1. GRAMMAR
PAST PERFECT
PAOLA ANDREA ZAPATA GRACIANO
11 A
CIUDADELA EDUCATIVA JOSE MARIA CORDOBA SCHOOL
CORDOBA-QUINDIO
2013

2. Past Perfect
Action taking place before a certain time in the
past (putting emphasis only on the fact, not the
duration)
Example:
I had already spoken to Jack
when I came here.
I spoke to Jack I came here
NOW

3. PAST PERFECT
Form of Past Perfect Simple
Subject
+ auxiliary verb + past participle
Joe and Pete
had
written

4. Contracions
 When
speaking with the past perfect tense,
we often contract the subject and auxiliary
verb:
I had
I'd
you had
you'd
he had
she had
it had
he'd
she'd
it'd
we had
we'd
they had
they'd

6. Put the verbs into the correct form (past perfect simple).
1.The storm destroyed the sandcastle that we (build)
.
2.He (not / be)
to Cape Town before 1997.
3.When she went out to play, she (do / already)
her homework.
4.My brother ate all of the cake that our mum (make)
.
5.The doctor took off the plaster that he (put on)
six weeks
before.
6.The waiter brought a drink that I (not / order)
.
7.I could not remember the poem we (learn)
the week before.
8. The children collected the chestnuts that (fall)
from the tree.
9. (he / phone)
Angie before he went to see her in London?
10.She (not / ride)
a horse before that day.

7. Find and write the verbs in
past perfect.

8. MAKE THE POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE PAST PERFECT SIMPLE
1) When I arrived at the cinema, the film (start)_____________.
.
2) She (live) __________in China before she went to Thailand.
.
3) After they (eat)___________ the shellfish, they began to feel sick.
.
4) If you (listen) __________to me, you would have got the job.
.
5) Julie didn’t arrive until after I (leave)____________.
.
6) When we (finish)____________ dinner, we went out.
.