Past Perfect Tense: Examples.

 

1. My kids were really exhausted and ready for sleep because they had both played soccer for hours that afternoon.
2. My daughter had won the two previous spelling bees which made her feel very disappointed when she lost this year to another student.
3. I had just arrived at the airport gate when I saw the attendant closing the gate.
4. My teacher thought she had sent out letters to all the parents about the upcoming field trip until she found all the papers sitting in the copy tray.
5. I had paid my son an allowance last year but asked him to get a job this year instead.
6. My son had volunteered to help me in the garden all summer until he realized how much work it actually was.
7. Had you concentrated harder on learning your ABCs in elementary school, these reports would not be as difficult for you to write now that you have an office job.
8. Can you tell me how much money you had saved up before your student loan became due?
9. I had played a trick on my neighbors this past Halloween, but then they called the police and reported me.
10. My friend had slept over at my house for the last two weeks and then I spent the next two weekends at his place.

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PAST PERFECT SIMPLE.

PAST PERFECT : HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE

                                 

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Narrative tenses: simple past- past continuous and past perfect.

Try to complete this story using appropriate verbs in the SIMPLE PAST, PAST CONTINUOUS OR PAST PERFECT.

drink up – raise – open - have – decide - need – discover -not normally spend – hate - be – save - look (2 - smile – know  – turn -  remember - want

Many years ago I 1……………………………. to spend New Year’s Eve with my family.  I 2 …………………………………. new year with my parents but I had nowhere to go, and being with my family seemed preferable to being on my own.

When my parents 3 …………………………… the door I could see they 4…………………………. , and that they were genuinely happy to see me. I 5 ……………………. addicted to heroin for 10 years, and for them, seeing me was the confirmation that I wasn’t dead in an alley. Unfortunately, I 6 …………………………… nothing new or exciting to tell them, just the same sad old stories. I 7 ……HAD BEEN GOING… from crappy job to crappy job, being invariably sacked, and I 8 ………………………. to crime whenever I was out of money.

During dinner, I 9 ……………….. several glassfuls of whisky and I had to go to the bathroom once to do some heroin. I 10 ……………………………… something to make me feel better, because for the whole evening my sisters 11…HAD BEEN LOOKING ....  at me with such contempt that it was unbearable. My own sisters 12 ………………………… me. Then I had a moment of realisation; I 13 ………………………………that they would never hate me as much as I hated myself.

When we finished dinner I 14 ………………………. my glass and said “I’m going into rehab”. My parents 15 …………………………….at me with some kind of hope. Parents never lose hope. But my sisters just 16 ……………………………….. down with disdain. They 17 ……………………………….perfectly well, that I had been in rehab centres many times before, and that this time wouldn’t be different.

It was different. After that day, I 18…………………………..  that look in my sisters’ eyes every day, every time I 19 …………………….. to shoot some heroin.  10 years later, on a New Year’s Eve, I thanked my sisters because they 20 …………………….. my life. They kissed me with their new look in their eyes, the look of love.  

PAST SIMPLE, PAST CONTINUOUS OR PERFECT.

Choose verbs from below and write them in the PAST SIMPLE, PAST CONTINUOUS OR PERFECT.

drive  – get – see  - receive - happen- try - start-

I'm Steve, a motor mechanic and this is the story of something strange that -----------------to me about five years ago.

It was a freezing cold winter. One day I------------a call to assist a motorist whose car had broken down and was stuck in the snow.

As I------------------to the place where the motorist was stranded, I noticed that the snow was getting heavier. When I------------the phone call, I was sure I knew where the motorist was. But when I got there, I couldn't see a car anywhere. I----------to call my office, but my mobile's battery was dead. I looked around, the snow had stopped, but it was lying thick on the ground.

I got out of the car and --------------looking for some sign of the motorist. I looked down and saw some footprints in the snow. I began following them. They led over a small bridge and across a park. It was freezing cold. 

I had been following the footprints for about five minutes when I ---------a phone box about one hundred metres away. I listened. I heard a noise. …….

Narrative Tenses: Simple Past,Past Continuous and Past Perfect.

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Simple Past / Present Perfect / Past Perfect

Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses. Check your answers by clicking on the link below.

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1. When I (arrive) home last night, I discovered that Jane (prepare) a beautiful candlelight dinner.
2. Since I began acting, I (perform) in two plays, a television commercial and a TV drama. However, I (speak, never even) publicly before I came to Hollywood in 1985.
3. By the time I got to the office, the meeting (begin, already) without me. My boss (be) furious with me and I (be) fired.
4. When I (turn) the radio on yesterday, I (hear) a song that was popular when I was in high school. I (hear, not) the song in years, and it (bring) back some great memories.
5. Last week, I (run) into an ex-girlfriend of mine. We (see, not) each other in years, and both of us (change) a great deal. I (enjoy) talking to her so much that I (ask) her out on a date. We are getting together tonight for dinner.
6. When Jack (enter) the room, I (recognize, not) him because he (lose) so much weight and (grow) a beard. He looked totally different!
7. The Maya established a very advanced civilization in the jungles of the

Yucatan; however, their culture (disappear, virtually) by the time Europeans first (arrive) in the New World.
8. I (visit) so many beautiful places since I (come) to Utah. Before moving here, I (hear, never) of Bryce Canyon, Zion, Arches, or Canyonlands.