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Past Perfect Simple (Examples (Negative (When I joined the club, I had not…
Past Perfect Simple
Examples
Negative
When I joined the club, I had not played golf since I was a child.
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Affirmative
When Colin retired, he had been a police officer for thirty years.
Structure
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Interrogative
Question word (Wh) + Verb "to have" in the past (had) + Subject + Verb in the Past participle + Complements?
Important
We use the Past Perfect Simple to talk about the action that happened first and the Past Simple for the action that happened after it.
We use the Past Perfect Simple with "for" or "since" to talk about the duration of activities or situations in the past.
Use
to talk about an activity or situation that happened before another activity or situation in the past.