GRAMMAR GUIDE 2 (continued)

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 504.

Past Perfect: Use the following rule to form the Past Perfect:

Active

Passive

The Past Perfect is used to indicate:

An action that happened BEFORE another action in the past; usually there are two actions in the sentence and one of the actions is often the result of the previous action, state or event.

e.g. In the Far East, Japan was booming and had become the

second largest economy in the free world.

e.g. The student had gone to the library before he went home.

e.g. He told us yesterday that he had visited the USA in 1996.

Remember: With BEFORE and UNTIL the action in the Past Perfect can emphasize achievement or completion of something:

e.g. Before she got home he had cooked the dinner. - Он приготовил

обед до того, как она пришла домой.

e.g. Before she had got home he cooked the dinner - Прежде чем она

пришла домой, он приготовил обед.

e.g. He didn't reach the station until after the train had left. - Он

добрался до вокзала после того, как поезд уже ушел.