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Past Perfect Simple Guide

The document discusses various tenses in English including the past perfect simple tense. It provides examples of how to form the past perfect simple in the affirmative, negative, and interrogative. It explains that the past perfect simple is used to refer to an action that was completed before another past action or time. It also lists common expressions that are used with the past perfect simple tense like "already", "before", and "by the time".

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Past Perfect Simple Guide

The document discusses various tenses in English including the past perfect simple tense. It provides examples of how to form the past perfect simple in the affirmative, negative, and interrogative. It explains that the past perfect simple is used to refer to an action that was completed before another past action or time. It also lists common expressions that are used with the past perfect simple tense like "already", "before", and "by the time".

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- Actiuni in desfasurare

- Actiuni anterioare

PAST CONTINUOUS FUTURE CONTINUOUS


PAST PRESENT CONTINUOUS
PERFECT FUTURE PERFECT
SIMPLE PRESENT SIMPLE
PERFECT SIMPLE

NOW THEN IN THE FUTURE


THEN IN THE PAST

PAST PERFECT PRESENT PERFECT FUTURE PERFECT


CONTINUOUS CONTINUOUS CONTINUOUS
FUTURE SIMPLE
PAST SIMPLE PRESENT SIMPLE
PAST PERFECT SIMPLE – M.M.C.P

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE


AFIRMATIV NEGATIV INTEROGATIV
S + had + V-ed/V3(past participle) S + had not/ hadn't+ V-ed/V3 Had+ S + V-ed/V3?
We had already done that project by the time the Susan hadn’t seen that film until we told her to Had Andrea seen Jim before yesterday?
teacher asked us to do it. watch it. Yes, she had./ No, she hadn’t.
PAST PERFECT SIMPLE – se foloseste:
O actiune care a avut loc inaintea unei actiuni trecute sau a unui moment trecut (an aaction which happened before a past action or a past moment):
The children had already tidied their room by the time their parents came home.
She had cooked dinner by eight o'clock.
O actiune care s-a terminat in trecut si ale carei rezultate sunt vizibile in trecut (an action which happened in the past and whose results are visible in
the past).
Mary had washed the car so the ground around it was wet.
Past Perfect este echivalentul lui Present Perfect in vorbirea indirecta:
„I have lost my purse.” She told me.
She told me that she had lost her purse.

EXPRESSIONS
already, for, since, yet, after, before, until, as soon as, by the time, etc
PAST PERFECT SIMPLE BEFORE PAST SIMPLE: Jane had finished the project before we arrived.
PAST SIMPLE AFTER PAST PERFECT SIMPLE: We arrived after Jane had finished the project.

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