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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!
Today we're gonna focus on the language that you need
to tell stories in English.
Now we all tell stories right about our day,
about our childhood or maybe just to laugh
at something that happened earlier.
So a really useful tense to help you
accurately tell stories in English
is the past perfect.
Now I know that grammar isn't usually heaps of fun
but we're going to include some pronunciation practice
and I will make it as fun as I can.
As always I've got a mini quiz at the end
to help you practise so make sure you stick around.
So we use the past perfect to talk about the past
but not just any situation in the past,
we use the past perfect
when we're talking about two events
that happened in the past
and when one event happened before the other event.
So it helps you to order the actions in your story.
Think about the past perfect as helping us to create
a timeline.
I had just stepped outside when it started to rain.
So there are two actions here, right?
I stepped outside, it started to rain.
Now if I use just the past simple
for both of these events
well then we don't know which one happened first, right?
All we know is that both events happened in the past.
So by using the past perfect in one of those actions,
I'm letting you know which action
happened before the other.
I had just stepped outside when it started to rain.
So which one came first?
I stepped outside and then after it started to rain.
Let's look at a few more examples.
She had just finished her exam when the timer went off.
So which action happened first?
Did the timer go up first?
No she finished her exam first but only by a little, just.
And we know this because of the past perfect.
I couldn't go out for dinner because I had left
my wallet at home.
So try and imagine the story here, you know, I was
working and one of my colleagues came up to ask me
to join them for dinner after work
but I realised that I didn't have my wallet that day.
I left it at home.
So I couldn't go out.
He had mentioned feeling sick,
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