Pluperfect

pluperfect:

I) How to build:

🔹'had' +  past participle:

He had always wanted to travel in Africa.


 She had already left when Philippe arrived.


 I bought the book that Corinne had recommended to me.



🔹 Questions / Answers  / Negations:

Had you been to London before?
Yes, I had.
No, I had not (hadn't) been to London before = No, I hadn't.

🔹When there is an adverb (already...), it is put between the auxiliary and the past participle:

I had already been to London before.

II) How to use:
🔹 Action before another action in the past.

She learnt to love the dog that had bitten her.


When I got home, I had already heard the bad news.


The children ate all the cookies that their father had bought.

🔹Can be used in hypothesis clauses:

I would not have come if I had known he was ill.

🔹 "just" with recent actions:

He had just eaten lunch when I arrived.

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> EXERCISE :

Conjugate the verb between brackets: