By: Gerson Jair Aspilla Hinestroza

 PAST PERFECT TENSE 

Indicates that an action was completed (finished or "perfected") at some point in the past before something else happened. This tense is formed with the past tense form of "to have" (HAD) plus the past participle of the verb (which can be either regular or irregular in form): For examples:

- I had walked two miles by lunchtime.

- I had run three other marathons before entering the Boston Marathon.
- Yaniel and me had been stranded for six days.

- Claudio had written a letter to Mary.

- The film had finished when she arrived at the cinema.

Note: To do a good using of past perfect tense, it is very important have learned verbs in past perfect tense. Such as:

Verbos	Pasado simple	Participio pasado
Bear	Bore	Borne
Beat	Beat	Beaten
Become	Became	Become
Begin	Began	Begun
Bend	Bent	Bent
Stop	Stopped	Stopped

 Want                                        Wanted                                Wanted

Work                                         Worked                                Worked

Activities

1) Underline the phrase where you find past perfect tense:

Last year, my wife and I took a trip with my friend Matt and his wife, Jill. We had chosen our destination just two weeks before the trip so that had made it extra exciting. In the end, we had decided to take a long weekend and go mountain biking in the Rocky Mountains. 

Matt had been one of my closest friends in college. We had met a few days before classes began. 
Actually, I had known Matt’s wife, Jill, before Matt met her. She had joined the volleyball team the first week of college and Jill and I had become friends. 
Well anyway, that long weekend of biking in the Rocky Mountains was full of good laughs, good exercise and good friendship. It was really a great trip.

2) Complete  the following sentences:

Past Perfect Tense