Past Perfect Rules
Here you can find tables with Past Perfect rules on:
positive sentences, negative sentences and questions.
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Positive Sentences
| Who? | Form of verb | Examples |
| I | had + Verb 3 | I
had lost the bag. |
| He/She/It | He
had lost the bag. She had lost the bag. It had lost the bag. |
|
| You | You had lost the bag. | |
| We | We had lost the bag. | |
| They | They had lost the bag. |
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Negative Sentences
| Who? | Form of verb | Examples |
| I | had
+ not + Verb 3 hadn't + Verb 3 |
I
had not lost the bag. I hadn't lost the bag. |
| He/She/It | He
had not lost the bag. He hadn't lost the bag. She had not lost the bag. She hadn't lost the bag. It had not lost the bag. It hadn't lost the bag. |
|
| You | You
had not lost the bag. You hadn't lost the bag. |
|
| We | We
had not lost the bag. We hadn't lost the bag. |
|
| They | They
had not lost the bag. They hadn't lost the bag. |
Question Sentences
| Who? | Form of verb | Examples | |
| Had | I | Verb 3 | Had I lost the bag? |
| he/she/it | Had
he lost the bag? Had she lost the bag? Had it lost the bag? |
||
| you | Had you lost the bag? | ||
| we | Had we lost the bag? | ||
| they | Had they lost the bag? |
So these are the Past Perfect rules.
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