Read this sentence. M. Hamel had said that he would question us on participles. In the sentence above, the verb form “had said” in the first part is used to indicate an “earlier past.” The whole story is narrated in the past. M. Hamel’s “saying” happened earlier than the events in this story. This form of the verb is called the past perfect. Pick out five sentences from the story with this form of verb.
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Some sentences of past perfect from the story 'The Last Lessen’ are as follows :
•I HAD COUNTED on the commotion to get to my desk without being seen.
•Not till then when I HAD GOT a little over my fright …..
•Fancy! For forty years he HAD BEEN there in the same place, with his garden outside the window and his class in front of him.
•Only the desks and benches HAD BEEN worn smooth; the walnut-trees in the garden were taller….
•The hopvine that he HAD PLANTED himself twined about the windows to the roof.
•Oh, the wretches; that was what they HAD PUT up at the town-hall!
•My books, that HAD SEEMED such a nuisance a while ago,.....
•This last lesson that he HAD PUT on his fine Sunday clothes, ….
•That they HAD NOT GONE to school more.
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