GRAMMAR Exercise D [B2-] Past Present or Present Perfect

PAST PERFECT TENSE

We use past perfect to report

  • events that happened before some point in the past

had + 3rd form of the main verb

Past perfect sentences

  • Last visit (in May), you said that you had started on a new drug. Are you still taking it?
  • Since May, Ms. Brown has been on donepezil for her Alzheimer’s. Before May, she had done only memory exercises.

Past perfect questions

  • We only use the helping verb ‘had’
  • The word order changes

‘had’ + (person/place/thing) + 3rd form of the main verb

EXAMPLES

  • Before the new drug, had you tried relaxation techniques?
  • Before donepezil, had Ms. Brown taken any other drugs?

In past perfect w-questions (who, what, when, where, why, which, how), the w-word goes before ‘had’:

EXAMPLES

  • What techniques had you tried before you started the drugs?
  • What had happened before they started the donepezil?

 


SPEAKING EXERCISE D 

Practice repeating aloud each example sentence in this tutorial. Focus on the common collocations, running them together until they flow as one expression.  The collocations are underlined.


GRAMMAR EXERCISE D

Past perfect or present perfect?

Instructions: Choose the correct option. 

Review MODULE 2 Lesson D for present perfect tense.

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