we (finish) the cooking before the guest (arrive).change into tense
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Explanation:
The perfect aspect communicates the information that the event occurred before. The present perfect communicates the information that the event occurred before now. The past perfect tense communicate the information that the event occurred before then, when then is a time in the past.
Here you're talking about two events in the past.
One happened earlier. The other happened later.
How to you tell the listener which event happened first and which event happened second?
You use the past perfect for the earlier event and the simple past for the later event.
I had finished cooking in time to take a shower before the guests arrived.
However, we have another way of saying which event happened earlier and which event happened later.
We can use the words before and after.
When the words before or after explain which action happened first and which action happened second, you don't need to use the past perfect tense.
You can, but you don't need to.