Past perfect | LearnEnglish
learnenglish.britishcouncil.org › past-perfectThe past perfect is used in the same way as the present perfect, but it refers to a time in the past, not the present. We use the past perfect: for something that started in the past and continued up to a given time in the past: When George died, he and Anne had been married for nearly fifty years. She didn't want to move.
Past Perfect | Grammar | EnglishClub
www.englishclub.com › verb-tenses_past-perfectThe structure of the Past Perfect tense is: The auxiliary verb (have) is conjugated in the Past Simple: had The main verb is invariable in past participle form: -ed (or irregular) For negative sentences we insert not between the auxiliary verb and the main verb. For question sentences, we exchange the subject and the auxiliary verb.