Past perfect tense (mind the exceptions!)

 

Past Perfect Simple - Formation:

Past Perfect Progressive - Formation:

person + had + 3rd form of the verb

person + past form of “to have” + “been” + infinitive + “-ing”

Past Perfect Simple - Conjugation:

Past Perfect Progressive - Conjugation:

I had exercised

I had been exercising

You had exercised

You had been exercising

He, she, it had exercised

He, she, it had been exercising

We had exercised

We had been exercising

You had exercised

You had been exercising

They had exercised

They had been exercising

 

Past Perfect Simple - Usage:

Past Perfect Progressive - Usage:

expresses that something happened before another action in the past

expresses that something started in the past and continued until another time in the past

 

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