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good morning welcome back again to our online class today's content you're

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going to see that today's presentation is shorter than any other than other

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days and that is because the tense that we're going to look at today has a very

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simple structure in this tense is the past perfect um you're going to see that here we

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refer to the past simple too because it's necessary but today we're not going to look

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at them together we're not going to practice the two of them together that we will leave it for

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another day okay so in order to understand how the past perfect works i would like you

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to imagine or to picture yourself in a situation like the one that you have in the example

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Okay. So, first of all, we've got Sarah, who went to a party last week.

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Paul went to the same party, but they didn't see each other.

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and you know why because paul left the party at 10 30 and sarah arrived at 10 at 11 o'clock

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so this is paul saying goodbye at 10 30 and here is sarah arriving so it's impossible to see to

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meet each other, okay? So, when Sarah arrived at the party, Paul wasn't there.

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He had gone home. Had gone is the past perfect. In other words, we use the past

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perfect to talk about an action that happens in the past of the past so all

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these example all these party everything happened last week in the past so before

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Sarah went to the party, Paul had gone. Before that past action, Paul did something, which

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is going. So, the past of the past, we use past perfect for the past of the past. Let's

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see more in detail how it works. Here you have three more examples. When I woke up,

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The garden was all white.

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Can you imagine?

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So, before I woke up, it had been snowing.

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So, when I woke up, the garden was all white.

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It had snowed during the night.

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This action happened before than this one.

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Another example.

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I suddenly realized that I had left my mobile in the taxi.

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so first I left my mobile in the taxi and then I realized it when she got to

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class she realized that she hadn't brought her book so she didn't bring her

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book that's the action that happened first and then she got to class and she

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realized so the past of the past past perfect so we use the past perfect when

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we are talking about the past and we want to talk about an action that

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happened before, an earlier past action. Go back to the first example again. When

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I woke up the garden was all white, it had snowed during the night. It snows

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before I woke up. We make the past perfect. All this was about the

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use of the past perfect. If we focus on the form of the past perfect it is super

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hyper mega easy because what we have to use is this structure. We write the past

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of the verb to have which is had and then the past participle of the main

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verb in the negative form hadn't past participle this does not change for any

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person so it's always the same I he she had gone whatever doesn't matter if it

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is a question how would that be if it is a question we write the auxiliary first

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like you know what we always do had she gone that's it

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auxiliary had subject she passed with this in the rest of the sentence had she

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gone as you can see in example number two had is sometimes contracted to the

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And this is all that I have to say about the past perfect.

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You just have to practice, okay?

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So, again, revise your irregular verbs and go on into the practice of the book.