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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