Past Perfect Tense

Past Perfect Tense:

Definition: অতীতকালে দুটি কাজের মধ্যে যে কাজটি পূর্বে হয়েছিল তাকে Past Perfect Tense বলে।

1.   Which word completes the sentence?
When I got home, the children had already ___ to bed.

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 going  

 went  
 gone  

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Past Perfect

Use: ব্যবহারঃ     

  
a) The past perfect is a narrative tense. This means it is used when telling a story about the past.
It is used in the same paragraph as verbs in the past simple tense, and is often used in the same sentence as a past simple verb.

The past perfect describes an event which happened before another event in the past. We use it when we do not want to say the events in the order they happened.

Example:

A sentence with the events in the order they happened:
John went to the shop on the way home from work, so he got home late.
Both verbs are in the past simple.

A sentence in which the events are NOT in order:
John got home late because he had gone to the shop on the way home from work.
The event which happened before the other verb is in the past perfect tense.

b) The past perfect is also used in other structures such as:
I wish:                                I wish I had cleaned the house!
Third Conditional:            If I had practiced harder, we might have won the competition.

Form: গঠনঃ  Subject + had / hadn’t + V3 + (Extention).

 

I you he / she / it we they	had	past participle
	hadn’t

Write any adverbs between had and the past participle.
The film had already started.
The post had just been delivered.