Past perfect

What is the past perfect tense?

The past perfect describes what happened before a point in the past. The tense makes it clear which is happened first between two event. Past perfect tense of any verb has two parts, one is the past form of the verb of “To have” [had] another is the past participle form of the verb. Here is described how to make and use it.

How to use the past perfect tense?

We can use the past perfect to talk about a completed action before something else in the past. We can use this tense to explain a reason for something in the past.

we are talking about a completed action before something else in the past.

• When we came, the train had left .
• When her mother went, the baby had cried.
• He had gone out, when I arrived in the room.

we are talking about to explain a reason for something in the past.

• It had snowed yesterday, so the plane did not arrive.
• He had eaten rice, so he was not hungry.
• I had been sick, so I can not come,
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Formation of present perfect tense.
  
  
  
  

  Person/number	Affirmative	Interrogative	Negative
  1st person/singular	I had eaten rice.	Had I eaten rice?	I had not eaten rice.
  2nd person/singular	You had eaten rice.	Had you eaten rice?	You had not eaten rice.
  3rd person/singular	He/she had eaten rice.	Had he/she eaten rice?	He/she had not eaten rice.
  1st person/plural	We had eaten rice.	Had we eaten rice?	We had not eaten rice.
  2nd person/plural	You had eaten rice.	Had you eaten rice?	You had not eaten rice.
  3rd person/plural	They had eaten rice.	Had they eaten rice?	They had not eaten rice.

  
  
  Note: In every field, we can use “had” [the verb of 'to be'] for the past perfect tense.