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Quiz8 - Past Perfect Tense Review

1. The document provides a review of the past perfect tense in English including its formation and common time expressions used with it. 2. It gives examples of how the past perfect tense can be used to show that an action was completed before another in the past or happened before a specific time in the past. 3. The document includes a practice activity where students are asked to fill in blanks with past tense verbs and answer questions using the past perfect tense based on a story about a dance competition.

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Quiz8 - Past Perfect Tense Review

1. The document provides a review of the past perfect tense in English including its formation and common time expressions used with it. 2. It gives examples of how the past perfect tense can be used to show that an action was completed before another in the past or happened before a specific time in the past. 3. The document includes a practice activity where students are asked to fill in blanks with past tense verbs and answer questions using the past perfect tense based on a story about a dance competition.

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FULL NAME_____________________ID____________ DATE __________

Simple Past Perfect Tense.

Review:
Forming the past perfect. The Past Perfect tense in English is composed of two parts: the past
tense of the verb to have (had) + the past participle of the main verb
 Past Perfect Tense is a verb form that shows that an action was complete before another
action in the past.
For example: I lost so much weight because I had begun exercising.

 Past Perfect Tense is a verb form that shows that an action happened before a specific
time in the past.
For example: I had already fallen asleep before ten o'clock.

 Past Perfect Tense is used to show you a state that started in the past, and continued up to
some time in the past.
 For example: I had had that house for eight years before the fire.

Examples of Typical Time Expressions

 Just – Already – Yet – Ever – Never – once - 3 times – before - until then - in 1974 - since -
for

1. Fill in the blanks with the Past Tense Form of each verb in parentheses.

Dance competition.

Last night, Diane and George _________ (dance) in a competition. They _______ (dance) a
salsa dance. They ______ ____________ (have practice) for 6 months before they _______
(dance) in the competition. They ________ (be) very good.
Diane and George´s friends _______ (be) in the audience. Before that night, they _______
(have) never _________ (see) Diane and George dance. In fact, they _______ (have) never
_________ (dance) in front of anyone before the competition.
After everyone ________ _______ (have dance), the judges announced the winners. Diane and
George _______ (win). They were the best dancers in the competition. Diane _______ (say)
she ______ (have) never ____________ (practice) a lot.
2. Answer the following questions use the Past Perfect Tense.

1. How long had Diane and George practiced before the competition?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Before that night, who had seen Diane and George dance?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What happened after everyone had danced?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Turn the following sentences into Past Perfect.

1. They _______________ (finish) the game before it rained.


2. She _______________ (save) her money for 2 years before she bought the car.
3. I _______________ (meet) him before he was my boss.
4. Tina said she _______________ (find) my purse in her car.
5. She woke up early because she _______________ (take) a new job.

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