PAST PERFECT
Aim: Past Perfect – structure and use
USE THE KEY WORDS TO GUESS WHAT
HAPPENED IN THE STORY AND COMPLETE THE
SUMMARY.
antique shop = a shop
where old and
valuable things are
sold
 break-in = provala
 burglar = a person
who breaks into
houses or shops
 bus shelter =
nadstresnica na
autobuskoj stanici
 fields = polja

footprints = otisci
stopala
 police constable =
police officer
 police dog
 railway line = pruga
 river
 silver
 wood =šuma
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PAST PERFECT - USE
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We use the Past Perfect to talk about an event or
situation in the past that happened before other
past events.
The police arrested the man who had broken into my
house.
Mary overslept because she had forgotten to set the alarm
clock.
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Compare:
When I arrived, she left. (I arrived and then she left)
When I arrived, she had left. (She left and then I arrived)
FORM: HAD +3RD COLUMN / VERB-ED
I had met him before.
 You had met him
before.
 He had met him
before.

We had met him
before.
 You had met him
before.
 They had met him
before.

Had I met him?
 Had you met him?
 Had he met him?

I hadn’t met him.
 You hadn’t met him.
 He hadn’t met him.

Had we met him?
 Had you met him?
 Had they met him?

We hadn’t met him.
 You hadn’t met him.
 They hadn’t met him.
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p. 25 ex. 8
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Had they heard
hadn’t arrived
had never seen
had already begun
hadn’t eaten
Had anyone died
p. 25 ex. 9
1. … because their last album
had been unsuccessful.
2. … because he had lost his
job.
3. … because it had eaten the
family’s dinner.
4. …. because the driver had
fallen asleep.
5. … because Mr Smith had
got a pay raise.
P.
30 EX. 2
1.
was sailing
was raining
didn’t feel
hadn’t had
hadn’t caught
heard
was flying
hit
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
destroyed
got back
didn’t believe
showed
had told
was flying
had gone
had thrown