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Luyện ngữ pháp - Destination B2 (Unit 3: Grammar - Past time: past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple, past perfect continuous, would, used to / be/get used to)


Past perfect simple

Form: had + past participle

Use Example
Situations and states before the past We'd lived next to the gym for a couple of months before 1 decided to join.
Completed actions before a moment in the past I'd already bought the computer game when I saw it was cheaper in another shop.
Completed actions where the important thing is the result at a moment in the past We didn't feel like playing Scrabble because we had just finished a long game of Monopoly.

Watch out!

There is often little or no difference in meaning between the past perfect simple and the past simple.
✓ We'd lived next to the gym for a couple of months before I decided to join.
✓ We lived next to the gym for a couple of months before I decided to join.

• After we have used the past perfect simple once, we often then use the past simple instead of continuing to use the past perfect.
I had already had one flying lesson, which was great fun, and I knew immediately that I wanted to get my pilot's licence.

• Phrases such as It was the first/second/etc time... are followed by the past perfect simple.
✓ It was the second time I'd been on a plane.

Form - Past continuous Form - Past perfect continuous


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