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Hello everybody, my name is Mónica, I am your teacher of English and today we are going

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to look at the past perfect in English, ok?

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We will see how to form it and how to and when to use it.

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First we are going to look at the form of this tense.

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You have to, here at the bottom, you have the form and at first this had, which is the

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auxiliary verb, is in the past and it's always going to stay the same, it's not going to

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change.

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So it will always be had for all the persons, I, you, he, she, it, etc.

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And then the past participle of the main verb.

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Now we are going to look at some examples, but before we look at the examples, which

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are here, there is something that you need to remember and it's that if the verb is regular,

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the past participle will end in ed, but if it's irregular, you have to go to the list

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of irregular verbs and then look at the third column.

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And here you have two examples, I had seen you and she had invited me to the party.

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Irregular and regular.

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How to use it?

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The use.

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When we have two verbs, one of them in a sentence, one of them is in the past simple and the

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other one is in the past perfect.

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The action that takes place, that is the first one to happen, is the one with the past perfect.

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When the police, here you have some examples, when the police arrived, the thief had escaped.

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Or you can say it the other way around.

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You can start with the past perfect and then the past simple.

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And the action that happens the first, that is happening the first, is the one with the

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past perfect.

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We can also use these adverbs with the past perfect, already, still, just, ever or never.

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And also, we can use before.

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And here you have some examples of these adverbs used in sentences with the past perfect.

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Okay, these are the exercises that I would like you to do on this page.

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You have to click on this link and go to this page.

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And finally, a recap.

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When we use it?

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For an action that happens before another action in the past simple.

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And we can just remember that we can also use them in the conditional sentences, the

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third type.

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If I had known you were coming, I would have come too.

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Here you have the past perfect.

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And that's all for today.

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Bye!

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