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Past Perfect Simple, Guide to the tense - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Using before, when, by the time before the past simple
        
        Before I knew it, she had run out the door. / By the time he phoned her, she had found someone new.
      - Using after, as soon as, the moment that, until before using the past perfect simple.
        
        After she had moved out, I found her notes./ I didn’t say anything until she had finished talking.
- - - - I washed the floor when the painter had gone. (First the painter left and then I washed the floor.)