Learning Task 6: In your notebook, copy and answer the statements below by boxing the past perfect tense, circling the simple past tense) and underlining the time expression used in each sentences.
1. He had told me before that he was in Europe.
2. The storm had landed on land before classes were suspended.
3. He was very happy after he had found his watch.
4. He had broken his eyeglasses before he told his mother.
5. By the time the flood came the farmers had harvested the rice.
6. He succeeded after he had worked so hard.
7. Before it rained hard, the farmers had planted the rice.
8. He had gone to college, before he was awarded a scholarship.
9. After he had thought hard, he answered the teacher's question.
10. When the girls had made the sandwiches the boys brought the juice.
11. After we had talked for a long time, she left her phone.
12. I said nothing until she had finished talking.
13. Before I knew it, the baby had run to the gate.
14. I mopped the floor after the carpenter had gone.
15. By the time Jules got to the birthday celebration, everyone had gone home.
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Past perfect tense is the form of a verb that is used to show that an action had already finished when another action happened.
Past perfect tense Formula
Verbal sentences:
(+) Subject + had + Verb3
(-) Subject + had + not + Verb3
(?) Had + Subject + Verb3
Nominal sentence:
(+) Subject + had + been + O/C
(-) Subject + had not + been + O/C
(?) Had +Subject + O/C?
Past tense is a verb tense expressing action or state in or as if in the past:
Past tense Formula
Verbal sentences:
(+) Subject + Verb2
(-) Subject + did + not + Verb1
(?) Did + Subject + Verb1?
Nominal sentence:
(+) Subject + to be (was/were) + O/C
(-) Subject + to be (was not/ were not) + O/C
(?) To be (was/ were) +Subject + O/C?
The answer below will display the past perfect tense sentence in bold writing, the past tense sentence in italics and the time expression sentence will be written underline.
1. He had told me before that he was in Europe.
2. The storm had landed on land before classes were suspended.
3. He was very happy after he had found his watch.
4. He had broken his eyeglasses before he told his mother.
5. By the time the flood came the farmers had harvested the rice.
6. He succeeded after he had worked so hard.
7. Before it rained hard, the farmers had planted the rice.
8. He had gone to college, before he was awarded a scholarship.
9. After he had thought hard, he answered the teacher's question.
10. When the girls had made the sandwiches the boys brought the juice.
11. After we had talked for a long time, she left her phone.
12. I said nothing until she had finished talking.
13. Before I knew it, the baby had run to the gate.
14. I mopped the floor after the carpenter had gone.
15. By the time Jules got to the birthday celebration, everyone had gone home.
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1. before
2.before
3.after
4.before
5.by the time
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7.before
8.before
9.after
10.when
11.After
12.until
13.before
14.after.
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