Read the text carefully :
“I was
born in the year 1976 in a remote village to the north of Oaurzazate ,Morocco.
In 1986 I finished my primary school studies. I had lived during
my primary education with a cousin named Lahcen. I joined University in
1996 to study English language and literature after I had taken my
baccalaureate from a high school in Ouarzazte . Before 1996 I had chosen
to study letters. I had been learning English for 4 years in Agadir ; then,
I graduated with a bachelor of arts in the year 2000.”
The
Past Perfect
·
The form of the past Perfect : Had + past participle
(past participle: regular verbs : infinitive +
ed example : I had lived.
Irregular verbs :
I had chosen
·
The use : we use the past perfect tense to show an action
that was completed before another action that took place in the past.
Linkers : Before / after / when / until / till / Because / so
examples :
- Before
the tourists arrived, the train had left.
-The
tourists arrived after the train had left .
- When the tourists arrived, the train had left .
- They had stayed in the class room until / till the bell rang
- They didn’t travel because the train had left.
Affirmative (+ ) : had + past participle
I had
joined the party.
I had
not seen him before
Had the
bus left?
Practice
1
Put the
verbs in the past perfect.
1. I lost
the key that he ___________
(give) to me yesterday.
2. He told
me that he ___________ (see)
the film before.
3. When
they came home, Liza _________
(already cook) dinner.
4. We could
not send you a postcard because we _________
(lose) your address.
5.The
waiter served something that we
___________ (not/order).
6.He went
to the country which he _______
(not/visit) before.
7.He
_____________ (not/swim) in the beach before that day.
8.His
mother was angry because he ____________ (not/do) the shopping for her.
9.
(you/finish) _____________________ your homework before you went to the cinema?
10. Why
(you/not/clean) _____________________ the bathroom before you took a bath?
11.
(you/have) _____________________ breakfast before you left the house?
12.
(she/manage) _____________________ to find a place to stay when she went to
London?
Practice
2
Put the
verbs in the simple past or past perfect
1.The storm
________________ (destroy) the house
that they had built.
2.The
students ________________ (clean) the blackboard they had used to do the Math exercise.
3.When she
went out to play, she _____________ (already/do) her homework.
4.She
______________ (eat) all of the food that we had made.
5.He put on
the jacket he ________________ (buy) from the new shopping mall.
6.Yesterday
Laura _____________(go) to the English
club after she had finished her homework.
Practice
3 : Previous National Exams items
Put the
verbs between brackets in the correct tense
-Bob and David enjoy (watch) _____________science fiction films .Yesterday
, they (go) _____________ to the cinema,
but when they arrived; they found that the film (already/start) _____________ .So, the decided to have a walk
along the coast .
- Najib
Sidqi (get) _____________ his degree in marketing before he started
work at the bank. In 2007, he (conduct)
_____________ a piece of research on developing customer services. Now,
he (be) _____________ the manger of a bank agency .
The Past Perfect Continuous
·
The form of the past perfect continuous : had been + verb+ ing
Example :
I had been waiting .
I had not been waiting
.
Had I been waiting ?
·
The use : we use the past perfect continuous for a long
action that happened before a past action. It refers to a duration of an event
in the past.
Practice
Use the
past perfect or the past perfect continuous.
1. I ________________ (try) to get tickets for that comedy show
for months before my friend finally got them.
2. When I
arrived at the theater, my friend ____________ (already/buy) the tickets.
3. He was
really angry because he ________________
(wait) for more than half an hour when I arrived.
4. When the
show started, I ____________
_(already/ apologize) to my friend.
5. We
__________ (watch) the show when
the lights went off.
6. Sarh was
so tired .She ________________ (watch)
the dishes for 2 hours.
1. When he
arrived from his friends` party, his wife had slept.
2. We had eaten breakfast before we went out working
in a new company.
3. After
students had finished writing the examples, they took a break of twenty
minutes.
4. Their
phone fall in a whole before they had taken a selfie.
5. She left
him because he had dated another woman.
6. The
grass became yellow because it had not rained all summer.
7. Had they
understood the lesson before the professor explained it?
8. Children
did homework after their mom had punished them.
9. I had
never met her before the school holiday.
10. Before
Jasmin got her promotion certificate, she had not been happy.
11. My
friend told me that he had never visited India before.
12. Had
they finished the project before the boss arrived?
A – Put
the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or past perfect simple).
When he
(wake up) ………………… , his mother (already / prepare) …………………breakfast.
We
(go)………………… to London because the Queen (invite)………………… us for tea.
He
(hear)………………… the news, (go) to the telephone and (call)………………… a friend.
When she
(start)………………… to learn English, she (already / learn)………………… French.
Jane
(already / type)………………… ten pages when her computer (crash)………………….
By the time
he (arrive )…………………at the pub, they (run) …………………out of beer.
Before that
day we (never / think)…………………of going to Japan.
I (know)
…………………him for a long time before I (meet)………………… his family.
They (not /
know) …………………where to meet because nobody (tell) …………………them.
It
(be)………………… cloudy for days before it finally (begin)…………………to rain.
B-Put
the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or past perfect simple) :
I can’t
believe I (get) ……………….. that apartment.
I (submit) ……………….. my application last
week, but I didn’t think I had a chance of actually getting it. When I (show) ……………….. up to take a look around, there were
at least twenty other people who (arrive) had arrived before me. Most of them
(fill, already) ……………….. out their
applications and were already leaving. The landlord said I could still apply,
so I did.
I (try)
……………….. to fill out the form, but I couldn’t answer half of the questions.
They (want) ……………….. me to include
references, but I didn’t want to list my previous landlord because I (have) ……………….. some problems with him in the past
and I knew he wouldn’t recommend me. I (end)
……………….. listing my father as a reference.
It was
total luck that he (decide) ……………….. to
give me the apartment. It turns out that the landlord and my father (go) ……………….. to high school together. He decided
that I could have the apartment before he (look) ……………….. at my credit report. I really lucked
out!