Past perfect
4 Study the sentences from the quiz. Then
choose the correct words in the rules.
1 By the time he returned to Venice in 1295,
Marco Polo had travelled almost 24,000 km.
2 Gagarin had flown in a plane hundreds
of times, but he had never flown in a
spacecraft.
RULES
a We form the past perfect with have /
had and a past participle.
b We form negative sentences with not or
ever / never
c We use the past perfect to talk about
an action that happened before/after
another action in the past.
4 Study the sentences from the quiz. Then
choose the correct words in the rules.
1 By the time he returned to Venice in 1295,
Marco Polo had travelled almost 24,000 km.
2 Gagarin had flown in a plane hundreds
of times, but he had never flown in a
spacecraft.
RULES
a We form the past perfect with have /
had and a past participle.
b We form negative sentences with not or
ever / never
c We use the past perfect to talk about
an action that happened before/after
another action in the past.
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Answers & Comments
a) We form the past perfect with had and a past participle.
b) We form negative sentences with not or
never.
c) We use the past perfect to talk about
an action that happened before
another action in the past.