Question

l (play) basketball before mare came (past perfect tense)​

Answer 1

Statement: l (play) basketball before mare came

• Rule: had + past particle

• Sentence: I had played basketball before mare came.

Answer 2

I had played basketball before mary came.

• The above-mentioned sentence is in the form of the past perfect tense.

What is the past perfect tense?

• This tense tells about the actions that were completed before some point of time in the past.
• The past perfect tense is formed by using the auxiliary verb ''had'' together with the ''past participle''(Verb 3)

Structure of the past perfect tense:

Subject + had + past participle + object.

Example: I had gone to the park.