Past Perfect
Grammarly Definition: The past perfect is a verb tense used to talk about actions that were completed before some point in the past.
Past Perfect is... the action before the action before.
Read the next paragraph. All the underlined verbs are in past perfect.
When I arrived home yesterday, I got a big surprise.
The cat had knocked over the birdcage.
The bird had gotten out.
It had flown to the top of the window.
The cat had ripped the curtains trying to get it.
Why do we use the past perfect?
What is the formula for the past perfect?
In the last example, what happened first?
What word differentiates the past perfect from the past simple
Write the verb in past perfect in the following sentence:
“I had put the washing out when it started to rain.”.
Write what action came first: “When Mrs Brown opened the washing machine she realised she had washed the cat”.