Perfect Tense ; PPT

Past Perfect  Tense is a kind of tense that is used to describe an action or an event that started in a certain time in the past and completed of finished certain time in the past too ; or post perfect tense is used to Express an event that had happened before that other event or action happened.

§  The pattern :

Verbal sentence : (+)Subject + Had + VIII (-) Subject + Had + Not + VIII (?)Had + Subject + VIII+ ? Example : (+)She had put my book on the table last night (-) She had not put my book on the table last night (?)Had She put my book on the table last night ?

Nominal Sentence : (+)Subject + Had + Been + Non verb (-) Subject + Had + Not + Been + Non verb (?) Had +  Subject + Been + Non verb + ? Example : (+)He had been there when the accident happened (-) He had not been there when the accident happened (?) Had He been there when the accident happened ?

 

**NOTE** I had = I’d You had = you’d We had = we’d  They had = they’d He had = he’d She had = she’d It had = It’d