Welcome to our Past Perfect Exercises. Let’s learn how to use the past perfect tense to describe moments and periods of time in the past. It is important to learn how to use them properly at this expanding stage of English where there is more focus on academic tasks and language functions. These Past Perfect Exercises teach you to talk about things that happened before a certain time in the past.
You use the past prefect by adding had + past participle (written/finished/cleaned etc.)
- When Jack arrived at school, his first clas had already started.
- I didn’t want to see the movie because I had already seen it before.
- After I sent the email, I realised that I had made some spelling mistakes.
When we want to talk about things that happened before a certain period in we use the past perfect.
- I wasn’t hungry at lunchtime as I had eaten breakfast late.
- My dad’s car was so dirty. He hadn’t cleaned it for ages.
- William wasn’t at school in the afternoon as he had gone to the dentist.
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