The Past Perfect: a free printable worksheet on the English Past Perfect with grammar rules and exercises
The Past Perfect
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Level:
This lesson can be used on all ages of intermediate to advanced students.
Target:
The aim of this lesson is to teach students how to form and use the past perfect in English.
The past perfect, also called the pluperfect, is a verb tense used to talk about actions that were completed before some point in the past.
We were shocked to discover that someone had graffitied “Edward was here” on our front door. We were relieved that Eward had used washable paint.
The past perfect tense is for talking about something that happened before something else. Imagine waking up one morning and stepping outside to grab the newspaper. On your way back in, you notice a mysterious message scrawled across your front door: Edward was here. When you’re telling this story to your friends later, how would you describe this moment? You might say something like: I turned back to the house and saw that some someone named Edward had defaced my front door!
In addition to feeling indignant on your behalf, your friends will also be able to understand that Edward graffitied the door at some point in the past before the moment this morning when you saw his handiwork, because you used the past perfect tense to describe the misdeed.
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