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I HAD LEARNED... The Past Perfect Tense | English Grammar Lesson with Pronunciation & Examples

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Hey there I'm Emma from mmmEnglish!

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Today we're gonna focus on the language that you need

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to tell stories in English.

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Now we all tell stories right about our day,

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about our childhood or maybe just to laugh

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at something that happened earlier.

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So a really useful tense to help you

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accurately tell stories in English

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is the past perfect.

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Now I know that grammar isn't usually heaps of fun

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but we're going to include some pronunciation practice

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and I will make it as fun as I can.

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As always I've got a mini quiz at the end

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to help you practise so make sure you stick around.

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So we use the past perfect to talk about the past

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but not just any situation in the past,

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we use the past perfect

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when we're talking about two events

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that happened in the past

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and when one event happened before the other event.

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So it helps you to order the actions in your story.

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Think about the past perfect as helping us to create

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a timeline.

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I had just stepped outside when it started to rain.

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So there are two actions here, right?

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I stepped outside, it started to rain.

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Now if I use just the past simple

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for both of these events

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well then we don't know which one happened first, right?

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All we know is that both events happened in the past.

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So by using the past perfect in one of those actions,

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I'm letting you know which action

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happened before the other.

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I had just stepped outside when it started to rain.

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So which one came first?

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I stepped outside and then after it started to rain.

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Let's look at a few more examples.

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She had just finished her exam when the timer went off.

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So which action happened first?

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Did the timer go up first?

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No she finished her exam first but only by a little, just.

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And we know this because of the past perfect.

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I couldn't go out for dinner because I had left

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my wallet at home.

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So try and imagine the story here, you know, I was

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working and one of my colleagues came up to ask me

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to join them for dinner after work

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but I realised that I didn't have my wallet that day.

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I left it at home.

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So I couldn't go out.

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He had mentioned feeling sick,

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