The Past Perfect Tense

The Past Perfect Tense

The past perfect tense is used to express an action that occurred or completed either before another past action or before a fixed point of time in the past.

Examples:

When I arrived, the thief had already escaped. ○ He had written this novel before the Revolution. ○ Mr. Brown had just left when the telephone rang.

Other Tenses

• The Simple Present Tense
• The Present Continuous Tense
• The Simple Past Tense
• The Past Continuous Tense
• The Simple Future Tense
• The Future Continuous Tense
• The Present Perfect Tense
• The Present Perfect Continuous Tense
• The Past Perfect Continuous Tense
• The Future Perfect Tense
• The Future Perfect Continuous Tense