Past Perfect Tense

Past Perfect

Tense

Past Perfect Tense

Прошедшее завершённое время

  had + V 3

had worked

  had played

had written

Past Perfect Tense

• Употребляется для выражения прошедшего действия, которое уже совершилось до определённого момента в прошлом .

Этот момент может быть определён:

такими обозначениями времени, как

• by 5 o`clock ( к 5 часам) ;
• by Saturday (к субботе) ;
• by the end of the year (к концу года) ;
• by that time (к тому времени) ;
• by the 15 th of December (к 15 декабря)

For example:

By the end of the year he had learnt to speak English.

We had done our homework by 4 o`clock .

А также Past Perfect используется:

• в придаточном предложении после союза after ( после того, как): After the sun had set , we decided to return home.
• в сложно-подчинённом предложении с союзом before ( прежде чем; до того как): I had finished my work before my mother came.
• в главном предложении при наличии наречий hardly, scarcely ( едва): He had hardly entered the house, when it started to rain.

Exercises:

• Before I went to Russia last year I (to read) a lot about it.
• I found that your country (to change) so much.
• I (to hear) that Moscow became as an international city as London.
• I (to expect) that Russia is a cold country and I (to find) it was true.
• She (to be born) before the war (to begin) .
• Captain Cook (to discover) the island before he (to die) .

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