Past Perfect Tense...

Posted on at


Past Perfect Tense...

Past perfect tense express the actions that are happened in the past .

 

**********************************************************************************

 

 

Positive Sentences...

 

Structure...

 

Subject  + helping verb +third form of verb +  object.

 

In Past perfect tense we use one helping verb.

  • Had

 

 

For example...

 

  • Sara had gone to school.

In this sentence Sara is subject so we used "had" as helping verb.

 

**********************************************************************************

 

Negative Sentences...

 

In negative sentences we use "not" after helping verb ( had).

 

Structure...

 

Subject  + helping verb + not +third form of verb +  object.

 

For example...

 

  • Sara had not gone to school.

In this sentence "not" is used after "had" to make the sentence negative.

**********************************************************************************

 

Interrogative Sentences...

 

In interrogative sentences we use helping verb ( had) at the start of sentence and question mark (?) at the end.

Structure...

 

Helping verb + Subject  + third form of verb  +  object +?

 

 

For example...

 

  • Had Sara  gone to school?

In this sentence "had" is used at the start of sentence to make it interrogative.

 

**********************************************************************************

 Some more examples...

 

  • We had carried woods.

         We had not carried woods.

          Had we carried woods?

 

  • Sara and Ali had played with dolls.

          Sara and Ali had not played with dolls.

          Had Sara and Ali  played with dolls?

 

  • I had sit in the park.

          I had not sit in the park.

          Had I sit in the park?

 

  • He had bought some books.

         He had not bought some books.

         Had he bought some books?

 

***********************************************************************************



About the author

noshaba-bibi

I am Noshaba Bibi ,24 years old ,
done Mcs from Virtual university and I am a blogger.

Subscribe 0
160