Past Perfect Practice Advanced English Verb Tense

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tackle means we’re gonna just fight and

we’re gonna win against a advanced verb

tense today we’re gonna talk about the

past perfect whoo I get a lot of

questions about the present perfect and

the past perfect and a couple days ago

on Tuesday we had a live lesson about

the present perfect so it’s time to talk

about the past let’s go into the past

and use this verb tense so I have a

question for you to start today’s lesson

my question is really simple let’s start

simple and work up what time did you

wake up today mmm what time did you wake

up to

a for me I woke up pretty recently I

woke up at 8:30 so my sentence is I woke

up at 8:30 in the morning Anatoly says I

woke up at 7:30 I Allah says I woke up

at 4:30 Wow

so quite early Wow Wow max says I woke

up at 7:30 Gennaro says 11:30 excellent

excellent

9 o’clock 4:45 so Yoshi really early

early early

Kevin why did you wake up at 2:00 a.m.

maybe you have an early morning job it

seems like most people are waking up

early 6 o’clock 7 8 maybe a little later

I woke up at 8:30 today 30 minutes ago

yes so let’s take this sentence and

let’s talk about something that had

already happened before you woke up so

today for me last night it rained a lot

it’s been pretty rainy the last couple

days here in the city where I live in

the south of the US in North Carolina

it’s been pretty rainy hopefully it

won’t be rainy tomorrow or this weekend

because I have some family coming to

visit me

but it’s been rainy so last night it

rained a lot but when I woke up at 8:30

the rain had already stopped the rain

had already stopped so both of these

things happened in the past I woke up as

you can see I’m awake I’m not sleeping I

think so we could say when I woke up

another action that’s finished in the

past before that the rain had already

stopped so think about the time that you

woke up

and tell me what is something that had

already happened when you woke up if you

woke up at 2:30 a.m. like Maha maybe

you’ll have difficulty thinking of

something that happened earlier than

2:30 but what is something that already

happened before that Estella has a great

way to describe this she says the past

perfect is the past tense of the past

exactly so both of these events happened

in the past I’m gonna write a sample

sentence I woke up the rain stopped but

one of them happened more in the past

and that is the rain so I’m gonna write

this sample sentence here and then I

want to see if you can also imitate this

and tell me something that had already

happened when you woke up so let’s say

when I woke up at at 8:30 today when I

woke up at 8:30 the rain head already

stopped so now it’s not raining anymore

it’s just wet outside so we have our

special verb for today had stopped not

already already is not our verb had

stopped and we’re gonna add already in

the middle so our first action our first

action is up here woke up this is just a

simple past when I woke up we’ve got a

lot of great sentences oh I love these

Francesca says when I woke up the Sun

had already risen ooh we are using a

lovely verb tense here called the past

participle don’t worry about the grammar

term but we’re going to be using some of

seem a little irregular like taken eaten

gone or in your sentence risen the Sun

had already risen beautiful Alex said

when I woke up at 6:00 a.m. oh when my

wife woke up at 6:00 a.m. I had already

prepared our breakfast how nice of you

Wow

so your wife woke up at 6:00 a.m. and

you woke up before her so when your wife

woke up at 6:00 a.m. you had already

prepared breakfast

oh great husband uh Estella said when I

woke up at 6 a.m. my cat had already

waited for me outside for a couple

minutes your cat is ready your cats

ready for some food or for some

entertainment or for something oh let’s

say for some of your wonderful sentences

when oh when I woke up at 6 a.m. all

week this is a good example I’m going to

read this out loud so let’s take a look

at this when I woke up at 6 a.m. I saw

beautiful spring flowers outside my

garden so in this sentence we have our

past verb when I woke up at 6 a.m. I saw

beautiful spring flowers these two

events happened at the same time you

woke up you looked out the window and

you saw others beautiful flowers so

these two events happened at the same

time so we’re gonna use just the past

for both of them I woke up I saw the

flowers so these two events didn’t

happen one of them didn’t happen further

in the past so your sentence is correct

but let’s try to use this head verb

lovely lovely Jan has a sentence

opposite of Alex’s he said when I woke

up at 5:00

my wife had already made breakfast oh

what a nice wife Wow don’t tell my

husband maybe he’ll get some ideas uh

toy says when I woke up at 9:30 a.m. the

Sun had already risen really high oh yes

so maybe the Sun rises at 6 o’clock and

for you you woke up at 9:30 so the Sun

had already risen really high beautiful

yes you’ve got it when I woke up at 7

a.m. my parents had already gone to work

beautiful sentence in fact I’m gonna

write this down because I want to

practice some of these verbs this past

participle verbs that we’re gonna we’re

going to use to make these as complete

and natural as possible when I woke up

my parents had already gone to work

great so here we have had and gone and

then in the middle I always find a way

to mark on my hands I’m so focused on

writing the sentence that I don’t look

at the marker and just make a mess it’s

okay I had already gone or can we say my

parents had gone already to work can we

put this here what do you think when I

went to work

my parents had gone already to work hmm

well the answer is yes and no yes you

can say that it’s not grammatically

incorrect it doesn’t sound so strange

but in reality we

never say that at least in my experience

when we’re going to add a word like

already it has to go in the middle to

sound as natural as possible so if you

want to add a word here let’s make sure

that it’s in between are you ready to

practice negative sentences we practice

a lot of positive sentences let’s try to

make it negative so let’s imagine let’s

imagine another event how about oh let’s

talk about when you were born some

things that hadn’t happened yet so let’s

say when I was born so I was born in

1987 I’m 29 years old 1987 so let’s

think about some things that hadn’t

happened yet in history so let’s say

when I was born the internet I think at

least it wasn’t popular the internet

hadn’t been invented yet oh we’ve got

lots of verbs here so I want to see for

you what are some things that hadn’t

happened when you were born and if

you’re born on a different in a

different year than me your answers are

all going to be different that’s great

the purpose is to use this verb tense as

correctly as possible so for me we could

say we have here had been invented bin

is our special verb here when I was born

and then we’ve got was born so we have

our simple past verb and then we need

negative our negative friend not

it hadn’t been invented yet when I was

born the internet hadn’t been invented

yet so what about for you

what had it happened when you were born

oh we’ve got a great answer here when I

was born no one had gone to the moon yet

or we could say people hadn’t gone to

the moon yet great said it hadn’t gone

hadn’t gone when I was born people

hadn’t gone to the moon yet Tinh says

when I was born the smartphone hadn’t

been invented yet oh great great

Esther says when I was born the gyro

hadn’t been created yet wonderful Estela

says when i was born in 1978 smart tvs

hadn’t been invented much later much

later let’s say oh we’ve got ooh some

good sentences about electricity

interesting suresh says when I was born

there was no electricity in my village

so here we have two events happening at

the same time when I was born there was

no electricity so if we’re going to talk

about something that hadn’t happened yet

let’s change it just a little bit to say

when I was born

electricity hadn’t come to my village

yet when I was born electricity hadn’t

come to my village we have hadn’t and

then our lovely verb here

great great when I was born mobile

phones hadn’t been invented Oh at Ella

yes I think it’s the same for me too

maybe they had been invented but they

certainly weren’t popular in the in the

80s at least 89 oh this is a fun

sentence Bob says when

I was born you hadn’t been born yet oh

so this means you’re older than me so

you could say when I was born you hadn’t

been born yet

lovely lovely okay let’s take this to

actually a simpler level we’ve talked

about positive sentences negative

sentences what about just simple answers

how can we use this in a short form

because sometimes we use the past

perfect by itself to say no I had it yes

I had and that’s it we don’t need to

make a full sentence so we’ve talked

about complex sentences and now we’re

gonna make this down to simpler

sentences so let’s say I have a couple

questions and I want to see what your

answer is no I hadn’t yes I had hmm I

want to see oh this is a lovely mark

when you were born had the Berlin Wall

fallen yet so the Berlin Wall fell in

1989 so I was two years old so for me I

could say no it hadn’t no it had it what

about for you when you were born had the

Berlin Wall fallen yet and you can make

a simple answer no it hadn’t yes it had

this is a really clear simple way to

answer this question because sometimes

you don’t need a complex in it

yes the Berlin Wall had fallen when I

was born you can say that but in

conversations we try to keep it quick

no it had it no it had it no it hadn’t

lots of no it hadn’t yes it had all

right it happened in 1989 1989 yes it

had yes it had no it hadn’t all right no

it had it let me ask you another

question when you were born

ah had Oh when you were born had your

parents ever traveled abroad when you

were born had your parents ever traveled

abroad so this means before you were

born

had your parents ever traveled abroad

and for me the answer is no they hadn’t

they hadn’t been to anywhere oh no

actually that’s not true yes they had

because they went on their honeymoon to

Jamaica so the answer is yes they had

they have already been to Jamaica so yes

they had how a lot of people said no

they hadn’t no they hadn’t yes my

parents when I was born my parents had

already traveled to Dubai

oh very cool no they had it all a lot of

you it seems like your parents hadn’t

traveled by the time you were born oh

when I was born my father had already

gone to Saudi Arabia very cool oh no

they hadn’t my parents didn’t have

enough money to travel I understand

traveling I think has become much more

accessible to a lot of people especially

20-30 years ago it’s probably much more

expensive and maybe more unusual to

travel abroad unless you’re rich or you

have a job that makes you helps you to

travel a lot all right we’ve got

beautiful short sentences here yes they

had no they hadn’t I love it

beautiful work great work with the past

perfect today

so my final tip for the past perfect is

to use the same Senate structure that we

practice today to use this when Senate

structure because really we use this a

lot so make sure that when you’re

speaking or when you’re writing or when

you read books you’re going to notice

when I plus some simple verb and then

our more complex had stopped had gone

hadn’t been invented hadn’t stopped

hadn’t eaten we will use a more the more

complex verb for something that happened

further in the past and I think a lot of

you wrote excellent sentences so what I

recommend doing now is I recommend

saying a final sentence with me today

we’re going to say it all together

practice this as confidently and as

strongly as possible before we say it

I’m going to take a drink of water and

then we’ll say it together no matter

where you are if you’re in Brazil

Vietnam Egypt Russia Alaska Antarctica

that would be amazing no matter where

you are let’s say this all together a

sentence using head plus our special

verb using the past perfect let’s say o

when all right I want you to try to

write this sentence as well so try to

write this in the comments in the chat

box that way people who maybe don’t

completely understand the sentence can

see it as well are you ready we’re gonna

say this it’s a little bit long when I

woke up this morning I hadn’t studied

the past perfect but now I have when I

woke up this morning I hadn’t studied

the past perfect yet but now I have when

I woke up this morning I hadn’t studied

the past perfect yet but now I have

wonderful Thank You kya for writing this

when I woke up this morning I hadn’t

studied the purse past perfect yet but

now I have

so now if it’s the first time that

you’ve practiced is the base layer and

then you can repeat this lesson review

it right the sample sentences try to

write your own sentences write comments

and start from here when I woke up this

morning I hadn’t studied the past

perfect yet but now I have lovely lovely

so let’s say this all together I’m going

to say it slowly I want you to repeat my

pronunciation and also repeat this long

sentence are you ready let’s say it all

together around the world when I woke up

this morning I hadn’t studied the past

perfect but now I have lovely well say

it quickly and loudly when I woke up

this morning I hadn’t studied the past

perfect but now I have lovely great work

great work today thank you everyone for

practising this wonderful verb tense

that native speakers use but is often

confusing when you’re learning English

so I hope that we could simplify it

together today and make it feel more

accessible that’s important and of

course there are plenty of other ways we

can use the past perfect but once you

feel comfortable using it like we did

today you can definitely use it in other

ways as well so thanks so much for your

hard work for opening your mind to this

concept and for tackling it we talked at

the beginning of this lesson about

tackling this concept it means that

you’re fighting it and you win you’re

tackling this concept and great work so

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