Past Perfect - Form
- Past Perfect
- Summary
- Use
- Signal words
- Form of affirmative, negative sentences and questions
- Spelling
- Special verbs
- Diagram
- Long forms and short forms
- Exercises - Past Perfect
Form of the Past Perfect
We form the Past Perfect with had and the past participle (regular verbs: infinitive + -ed; irregular verbs: 3rd column of the table of the irregular verbs)
had + past participle
We use the same form of the auxiliary had every time regardless the subject.
past participle:
- regular verbs: infinitive + -ed
- irregular verbs: 2nd column of the table of the irregular verbs
Affirmative sentences
| regular verbs |
irregular verbs |
| I/you/he/she/it/we/they had played hockey. |
I/you/he/she/it/we/they had gone home. |
Negative sentences
| regular verbs |
irregular verbs |
| I/you/he/she/it/we/they had not played hockey. |
I/you/he/she/it/we/they had not gone home. |
Questions
| regular verbs |
irregular verbs |
| Had I/you/he/she/it/we/they played hockey? |
Had I/you/he/she/it/we/they gone home? |
