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GRAMMAR BOOK

THE PAST PERFECT TENSE

FORM

Affirmative Negative
I I
He He
She ’d mended the bike. She mended the bike.
It It hadn’t
We (had) (Past Participle Form) We (had not) (Past Participle Form)
You You
They They
Question
Had I mended the bike?
Had he mended the bike? What had he done?
Had she mended the bike? Why had you cried?
Had it worked? What had she repaired?
Had you mended the bike?
Had we mended the bike? Where had they visited?
How long had she worked?
Had they mended the bike?

KULLANIM

A) Geçmişte belirli bir zamandan önce, başka bir olayın daha önceden tamamlanmış olduğunu ifade
ederken kullanılır.

➠ By the end of 2000, the government had built over 500 new schools in different regions of Turkey.
➠ Maria was really surprised to see snow for the first time in Sweden because she had never seen snow
before.
➠ Samuel didn’t want to see the film with us because he had already seen it twice.

➠ Madonna became popular in the late 1980s. She had previously / formerly worked as an actress in
movies.
➠ In 1879, everyone’s life changed greatly with the invention of the light bulb. Prior to that, people had used
candles or kerosene lamps to light their houses.
➠ The city had been in a terrible condition until the 1930s.
➠ An avalanche had blocked the way up to the mountain, so the expedition team had to wait for long to
reach the base camp.

B) Geçmişte belirli bir zamandan önce tamamlanmış ama etki ya da sonucu bahsedilen zamanda görülen
eylemlerden bahsederken kullanılır.
➠ We were shocked to learn that our train had already left.
➠ The old woman in Cambodia was in tears as she had just lost her sons in a terrorist attack.
➠ The hostages were in a very bad condition because the terrorists had violently tortured them.

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