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  • Kindergarten

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📝 Student Instruction: The Past Perfect Tense

 

The Past Perfect tense is used to talk about an action that was completed before another action or time in the past. It helps show the sequence of past events.

 

1. How to Form the Past Perfect

 

The structure for the Past Perfect is always the same, regardless of the subject:

StructureFormExample

AffirmativeSubject + had + Past Participle (V3)They had finished their homework.

NegativeSubject + had not (hadn't) + Past Participle (V3)She hadn't seen that movie.

QuestionHad + Subject + Past Participle (V3)?Had you eaten yet?