rain bring happiness (past perfect tense)
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PAST PERFECT TENSEPast Perfect Tense indicates a past action which is completed before another past action.
POSITIVE FORM (+) : Subject + HAD ( auxilary verb- have ) + V3 ( third form of main verb – past participle )
NEGATIVE FORM (-) : Subject + HAD ( auxilary verb- have ) + NOT + V3 ( third form of main verb – past participle )QUESTION FORM (?) : HAD ( auxilary verb- have ) + Subject + V3 ( third form of main verb – past participle )
NEGATIVE QUESTION FORM (?) : HAD ( auxilary verb- have ) + NOT + Subject + V3 ( third form of main verb – past participle )
POSITIVE(+) | NEGATIVE(-) | POSITIVE QUESTION (?) |NEGATIVE QUESTION (?)
POSITIVE(+) NEGATIVE(-) POSITIVE QUESTION (?) NEGATIVE QUESTIONS (?) I had looked I had not ( hadn’t) looked Had I looked Had not / Hadn’t I looked You had looked You had not ( hadn’t) looked Had you looked Had not / Hadn’t you looked He had looked He had not ( hadn’t) looked Had he looked Had not / Hadn’t he looked She had looked She had not ( hadn’t) looked Had she looked Had not / Hadn’t she looked It had looked It had not ( hadn’t) looked Had it looked Had not / Hadn’t it looked We had looked We had not ( hadn’t) looked Had we looked Had not / Hadn’t we looked You had looked You had not ( hadn’t) looked Had you looked Had not / Hadn’t you looked They had looked They had not ( hadn’t) looked Had they looked Had not / Hadn’t they looked
CONTRACTIONS:
For “HAD”;
had –> ‘d Ex: I‘d looked.
had not –> hadn’t Ex: I hadn’t looked.
Common Tense Markers:
Already / Just / Never / Until that day / Not yet / Once
Examples:
When I return home, she had already left.
I went there after I had completed the task.
She hadn’t come late to the school before.
My father and mother had been married for two years when I was born.
Until Linda went to England, he had never spoken English.
My son told me that he hadn’t been able to make such a beautiful picture before.
If you had studied hard last year, he would have passed all his exams.
Lisa had done her homework so she was happy.
David had lived in Florida for ten years before he moved to California.
Had they gone out when I called?
The woman had cried till the morning.
I hadn’t returned to university.
Hadn’t Helen left when I went to the club?
By the time we came, she had finished the project.
I had already taken an umbrella when it began to rain.