Past perfect simple and continuous

Past Perfect Simple and Continuous

The past perfect tense is used to describe an action that took place in the past before another past action. There are two forms of this tense in English: the past perfect simple and the past perfect continuous

The past perfect simple

 Conjugation  How do we conjugate the past perfect simple?

Subject+ Had+ Verb in participle+ Complements

I had seen the goal

 Use  We use the The past perfect simple to talk about:


 * Actions that happened before an action we done.
 * In the reported speech.
 * To speak about hipothetical conditions
 * to speak about wishes

Examples:


 * 1) When I arrived to the match, the oponent team had already scored
 * 2) If I had bought a car, I would go everyday to my town
 * 3) I wish you had understand me

The past perfect continuous

 Conjugation  How do we conjugate the past perfect continuous?

Subject+ Had Been+ Gerung+ complements

Use We use the The past perfect continuous to talk about:


 * To talk about a large accion that continue happen in the moment of the past we are speaking.
 * In the reported speech

Examples:

I had been dreaming all night, so I felt very tired when i woke up